VC Analyst – Innovis VC, London UK
- Sourcing early-stage (pre-seed, seed) start-ups for European venture capital
- Supporting investment decisions: due diligence; building business case for early stage start-ups
Bioengineering Intern – Curio Bioscience, Palo Alto CA
- Independently designed and implemented improvements to the automation of a spatial transcriptome mapping technology, reducing processing time and increasing data accuracy
- Successfully identified and resolved technical issues in Python code that improved the communication between fluidics, lasers, and microscopes, resulting in more efficient and accurate data acquisition
- Developed a daisy-chaining script to enable seamless integration and simultaneous operation of multiple systems, achieving faster and more efficient imaging results
Research and Development Intern – XGenomes, Cambridge, UK
- Worked on a new liquid biopsy technique that detects DNA methylation patterns associated with cancer
- Executed, analysed and interpreted single molecule localization experiments on a TIRF microscope
- Tuned the photo-physics of fluorescent labels and the kinetics of molecular interactions between nucleic acids
- Programmed fluidic/liquid handling systems to work in conjunction with microscopes
