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SCIENTIFIC TECHNICAL LEADER I
Career Overview
With a certification of HTL from ASCP and nearly 25 years' experience in clinical, academic and pharmaceutical laboratories I have developed the expertise in all aspects of Histology from tissue handling and sectioning to staining techniques including, special stains IF, IHC and ISH.
I have been with NIBR Ophthalmology for 10 years, contrubuting to many project teams, helping to move them from D0 to CSP.  Results-driven following the analysis until I satisfied with the conclusion.
Qualifications

  • Histology 
  • FACS
  • Confocal
  • Immunofluorescence assay
  • IHC
  • ISH
  • Western blotting

  • Expert in data analysis
  • Leader in data presentation
  • Experimental design
  • Automated equipment
  • Imaging
Technical Skills
SkillsExperienceTotal YearsLast Used
Histologyexpert25 years2015
Zeiss Zen confocal acquisition expert82015
Zeiss Axiovision softwareexpert102015
Leica Bond RXexperienced82015
Prism Graphpadexperienced102015
ImageJexperienced102015
Microsoft softwareexperienced202015
Accomplishments
  • Leading at the front lines M1, M2
  • Managing Tough conversations
  • Appreciating Differences
  • The patent puzzle
  • Molecular Pharmacology of Drug-receptor interactions
  • Target to Therapy
  • Mentor program participant (Rebecca Mosher OTM)
  • Peer review Jean-Rene Galarneau PSC


Work Experience
Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research OphthalmologyCambridge, MassachusettsScientific Technical Leader I01/2011 to Current
  • Contributor to NTRC, CSP, sPOC projects with pathology interpretations of findings.
  • ACD RNAscope assay development for Human tissue (Leica Bond RX).
  • IHC and IF singular and multi-plex assays and analysis
  • Toxocology and Efficacy pathology
Scientist II01/2006 to 01/2011
  • Developed SOP's to process, section and stain Eye tissue from rodents, rabbits and Human donors. Supported the development and characterization of animal models used to screen new therapeutics, with several going to phase I. I have provided pathology interpretation for toxicology and efficacy results for on-going projects.  Designed and built histology lab for newly formed Department of Ophthalmology. 
  • Expertise in multiple Image acquisition and analysis software packages.
  • Excellent microtome skills (FFPE and Frozen).
Wellman Center for Photomedicine Massachusetts General Hospital-Harvard Medical SchoolSenior Research Technologist01/1999 to 01/2006
  • Certified Flow Cytomerty,  FACS instructor on FACScalibur FACSaria and FACS-LSRII platforms.
  • Imaging IF and IHC with Nuance Multi-spectral Imaging.
Skin Pathology Laboratory Boston Medical Center BU School of MedicineLaboratory Supervisor01/1997 to 01/1999
  • Directed the clinical laboratory daily operations with 8 reports.
  • Prepared the laboratory to meet CLIA, CAP, OSHA requirements (teaching medical facility).
  • Performed all QA for Immunofluorescence / Immunohistochemistry for the company.
Cytopath LaboratoriesAlbany, New YorkLaboratory Supervisor01/1993 to 01/1997
  • Clinical lab manager.
  • Over seeing daily schedules and lab operations.
  • Prepared the laboratory to meeting regulatory agencies requirements, CLIA, CAP, OSHA.
  • Pathology assistant- outpatient surgery center as a MOHS* Technician for the dermatology cancer division.
  • Had the responsibility for QC and preformed Immunofluorescence/ Immunohistochemistry and Special Stains.
Albany Medical CenterMOHS Technician01/1991 to 01/1993
  • Is a specialized frozen section technique used for tumor margin diagnostics during the surgical procedure.) Preformed the daily duties of a Histologist for an 800 bed teaching medical center.
  • Operating Room frozen section technician, immunofluorescence / immunohistochemistry, special stains, grossing room, sectioning and embedding.
Plymouth State University01/1985 to 01/1990
  • Senior thesis "Water purification properties of Phragmites australis" Tissue culture Western Blots ELISA assays General Research Skills.
Professional Affiliations
American Society for Clinical Pathology
National Society of Histotechnology
Becton Dickson site certifications on FACScalibur FACSaria FACS-LSRII platforms
Publications
AAV-mediated RLBP1 gene therapy improves the rate of dark adaption in Rlbp1 knockout mice. Molecular Therapy - Methods & Clinical Development Vivian Choi, Chad Bigelow, Terri McGee, Akshata Gujar, Hui Li, Shawn Hanks, Joanna Vrouvlianis, Michael Maker, Barrett Leehy, Yiqin Zhang, Jorge Aranda, George Bounoutas, John Demirs, Junzheng Yang, Richard Ornberg, Yu Wang, Wendy Martin, Kelly Stout, Gregory Argentieri, Paul Grosenstein, Danielle Diaz, Oliver Turner, Bruce Jaffee, Seshidhar Police, and Thaddeus Dryja
 
Characterizing kidney and eye pathology of complement factor H deficient mice Sha-Mei Liao, Natasha Buchanan, John Demirs, Karen Anderson, Bruce D. Jaffee Molecular Immunology - MOL IMMUNOL. 01/2010; 47(13):2281-2281.
 
Pharmacologic uncoupling of angiogenesis and inflammation during initiation of pathological corneal neovascularization. Journal Biological Chemistry. 2011 Dec 30;286(52):44965-75. Epub 2011 Nov 9. Sivak JM, Ostriker AC, Woolfenden A, Demirs J, Cepeda R, Long D, Anderson K, Jaffee B. Department of Vision Sciences, Toronto Western Hospital, Toronto, Ontario M5T 2S8
 
Real-time In-Vivo Quantification of Melanocytes by Near-infrared Reflectance Confocal Microscopy in the Guinea Pig Animal Model Journal of Investigative Dermatology 2002 119, 533–535 Wang T, Demirs J, Pathak M, Gonzalez S. Wellman Center for Photomedicine, Harvard School of Medicine, MGH Boston Ma
 
Protein Kinase C inhibits singlet oxygen-induced apoptosis by decreasing caspase-8 activation Oncogene. 2001 Oct 11;20(46):6764-76 Zhuang S, Demirs J, Kochevar IE. Wellman Center for Photomedicine, Harvard School of Medicine, MGH Boston Ma
 
P38 Mitogen-activated protein kinase mediates Bid Cleavage, mitochondrial dysfunction, and caspase-3 activation during apoptosis induced by singlet oxygen, but not by hydrogen peroxide Journal Biological Chemistry. 2000 Aug 25;275(34):25939-48  Zhuang S, Demirs J, Kochevar IE. Wellman Center for Photomedicine, Harvard School of Medicine, MGH Boston Ma
 
 
 NIBR Global Research conference Posters:
 
 Development of a mouse model of geographic atrophy: Madrid Research Conference M.E.  McLaughlin, C. E. Bigelow, G. Bounoutas, N. Buchanan, I. L. Jones, S. Poor, Demirs J., B. Jaffee Department of Ophthalmology, Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research, Cambridge, MA USA
 
Inhibition of Angiogenesis in a Murine laser-induced Choroidal  Neovascularization Model:  Madrid Research Conference 2009 Poor S, Qiu Y, Demirs J, Anderson K, Jaffee B Department of Ophthalmology, Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research, Cambridge, MA USA
 
Investigation into the Relationship between Tyrosine Kinase-EphA2 Expression levels, UVB Exposure and Melanoma Cell Behavior Zhang G, Yang G, Demirs J, Flores E, ChenYC, Hocker T, Tsao H. Wellman Center for Photomedicine, Harvard School of Medicine, MGH Boston Ma
 
Posters:
ARVO: (Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology)
 
Residual Cesium Chloride in AAV Vectors Purified by CsCl Gradient Centrifugation Does Not Cause Obvious Inflammation or Retinal Degeneration in C57Bl6/J Mice Following Subretinal Injection Guerin, Karen and Choi, Vivian and Aranda, Jorge and Demirs, John and Li, Hui and Yang, Junzheng and Nguyen, Niem and Bottega, Steve and Jaffee, Bruce and Dryja, Ted and Police, Seshidhar
 
Complement Plays A Minor Role In Mouse Laser-induced Choroidal Neovascularization Stephen H. Poor, Elizabeth Fassbender, Siyuan Shen, Yubin Qiu, Amber Woolfenden, John Demirs, Karen Anderson, Bruce D. Jaffee. Ophthalmology, Novartis, Cambridge, MA. 
 
Low-grade Ocular Inflammation Is Chronically Present in Complement Factor H-deficient Mice Natasha Buchanan, John Demirs, Steve Louie, Sassan Azarian, Karen Anderson, Bruce Jaffee, Sha-Mei Liao. Ophthalmology, Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research, Cambridge, MA; Genetics, Genomics Institute of the Novartis Research Foundation, San Diego, CA
 
Gentamicin-Induced Retinal Degeneration in Dutch Belted Rabbits Delgado O. Demirs J. Bigelow C. Poor S. Zhang Y. Louie S. Crowley M. Hanks S. Buchanan N. Dryja T. Jaffee B. Liao S. Department of Ophthalmology, Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research, Cambridge, MA USA
 
Activation of the Wnt Pathway in a Mouse Corneal Neovascularization Model (ConV) Azarian S. Cepeda R. Liu J. Pan S. Nicholas N. Etmad-Gilbertson B. Giza S. Demirs J. Anderson K. Elliot J. Kansara v. Long D. Drew T. Gould T. Brown A. Jaffee B. Department of Ophthalmology, Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research, Cambridge, MA USA
 
Inhibition of angiogenesis in the Murine laser-induced Choroidal Neovascular Poor S, Qiu Y, Demirs J, Anderson K, Jaffee B Department of Ophthalmology, Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research, Cambridge, MA USA
 
A Rodent Model for Identifying Oral VEGFR2 Inhibitors as a Treatment for Wet Macular Degeneration Poor S, Qiu Y, Demirs J, Anderson K, Jaffee B Department of Ophthalmology, Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research, Cambridge, MA USA
 
Pseudo-AMD Changes in Wild-type C57BI/6 Mice N.M. Buchanan, C.E. Bigelow, S.H. Poor, Demirs J., G.S. Bounoutas , I.L. Jones , B. Jaffee, M.E. McLaughlin Department of Ophthalmology, Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research, Cambridge, MA USA
 
Lipid Deposits, Retinal Pigmented Epithelium Dysfunction and Photoreceptor Degeneration: An Acute Rat model of Dry Age-Related macular Degeneration Y. Zhang, A. De Erkenez, S. Hanks, K. Anderson, Demirs J., J. Jaffee Department of Ophthalmology, Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research, Cambridge, MA USA
 
Lipid deposits, retinal pigment epithelium dysfunction and photoreceptor degeneration: An acute rat model of dry age-related macular degeneration Zhang Y, De Erkenez A, and Demirs J. Department of Ophthalmology, Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research, Cambridge, MA USA
 
Complement activation and inflammation response in a rat model of NaIO3-induced RPE degeneration. De Erkenez A, Anderson K, Demirs J,  Zhang Y. Department of Ophthalmology, Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research, Cambridge, MA USA
 
Acute light-induced photoreceptor damage in mice dependent upon strain and exposure time. Hanks S, Bigelow C, Stefanidakis M, Demirs J, Jones I, Liao S, Jaffee B. Department of Ophthalmology, Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research, Cambridge, MA USA 
 
Structural and functional changes in the mouse retina elicited by blue light exposure. Hanks, Shawn M., Michael Stefanidakis, Demirs J., Ian L. Jones, Sha-Mei Liao, Bruce D. Jaffee, and Chad E. Bigelow. Department of Ophthalmology, Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research, Cambridge, MA USA (ARVO Annual Meeting 2010)
 
A Mouse Corneal Debridement Model Reveals Signaling Between Inflammatory Infiltrates and Wound-Edge Epithelium to Induce a Neovascular Response. Sousa, Debby, Rosemarie Cepeda, Amber Woolfenden, Allison Cherry, Demirs J.,  Bruce Jaffee, Jeremy Sivak. Department of Ophthalmology, Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research, Cambridge, MA USA, (ARVO Annual Meeting 2010). 
 
Characterizing Kidney and Eye Pathology of Complement Factor H Deficient Mice Liao S, Buchanan N, Demirs J, Anderson K, Jaffee Bruce. Department of Ophthalmology, Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research, Cambridge, MA USA
 
Characterizing Eye and Kidney Pathology of Complement Factor H-Deficient Mice N.M. Buchanan1, Demirs J.1, S. Louie1, S. Azarian2, K. Anderson1, B.D. Jaffee1, and S-M Liao1,  1Ophthalmology, Novartis Institute for Biomedical Research, Cambridge, MA, 2Genetics, Genomics Institute of the Novartis Research Foundation, San Diego, CA
Education and Training
B.A. Biology1990Plymouth State University
Coursework in Chemistry Microbiology, Genetics.
Member of sailing Club
Member of rock climbing Club
Skills
ACD, cancer, dermatology, ELISA,  Imaging, instructor FACS, Pathology, QA, Research, surgery, teaching, Technician, trainer
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Resume Overview

Companies Worked For:

  • Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research Ophthalmology
  • Wellman Center for Photomedicine Massachusetts General Hospital-Harvard Medical School
  • Skin Pathology Laboratory Boston Medical Center BU School of Medicine
  • Cytopath Laboratories
  • Albany Medical Center
  • Plymouth State University

School Attended

  • Plymouth State University

Job Titles Held:

  • Scientific Technical Leader I
  • Scientist II
  • Senior Research Technologist
  • Laboratory Supervisor
  • MOHS Technician

Degrees

  • B.A. Biology 1990

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