Cui Rong Teo

• Project lead for New Product Introduction and Sustaining activities development of Real-time PCR instruments, DNA gel electrophoresis device, Real-time PCR master mixes, and calibration plate.
• Write Verification & Validation test plans, protocols, and reports following ISO 13485/ ISO9001 standards and adherence to internal Standard Operating Protocol & Product Commercialization Process.
• Conduct testing activities in a team following approved test plans and protocols. Summarize test results and present them to the project core team for evaluation.
• Interview potential internship candidates, arrange intern's onboarding activities, and conduct 1-to-1 sessions to follow up on their internship progress and school assignments.
• Mentor junior scientists/interns and provided guidance on their projects and test methods development.
• Active participation in innovation initiatives by proposing potential product concepts. One of the ideas is awarded a 10K funding for exploration with a cross-functional team.

• Experience with mouse colony breeding, genotyping, harvesting of mouse organs, histology, and H&E staining.

• Experience with primary cells isolation for in vitro experiments eg. Tail-tip fibroblast, peritoneal macrophages, and bone marrow-derived macrophages.

• Successfully assisted post-doc in writing, generating experiment data to secure 150K fellowship.

• Present scientific findings orally in the 8th international p63 & p73 workshop 2018 in Germany and poster presentations at several local conferences such as Frontiers in Cancer Science.

• Participate actively in lab meetings by providing suggestions, troubleshooting, and sharing knowledge acquired in previous working experiences and classes.

• Conducted literature research on surfactants, Retinol, and PM2.5 for various projects, leading to well-informed decisions for product formulations and innovative product claims.
• Performed data analysis, preparation of figures, and manuscript for paper submission.

• Experience with protein analytical methods (SDS-PAGE, Western Blotting).

• Experience with cell culture techniques (culturing cancer cell lines, transwell invasion assay, wound healing scratch assay, soft colony agars, MTT cell proliferation assay, promoter study using dual luciferase assay, Lentiviral and Retroviral production using HEK393T cells).

• Experience with molecular biology techniques (cloning of promoter/UTR/shRNA and protein expression plasmids, bacterial transformation and primer designs for cloning and Real-time PCR gene expression studies).

• Responsible for laboratory day to day operation, preparation for the lab safety audit, liaison with vendors for quotations and procurement.

• Perform troubleshooting and optimization of the experimental protocols.

• Prepare materials for grants, presentations, and submission to peer-reviewed journal publications.

• Good teamwork resulted in 2 co-author publications and 1 first author publication in 4 years with the shortest manuscript revision done within 3 days.