- Music
- Cooking
- Reading
- Mindfulness Practices
- Yoga
- Passionate about balancing physical health with mental and emotional wellness
- Dance
- Personal Development and Self-Improvement
Apoorva Talanki
New York
Summary
Organized and dedicated coordinator with proven track record of providing exceptional customer service in fast-paced environments. Offering keen attention to detail and strong decision-making skills to manage multiple, concurrent tasks. Self-motivated work ethic to perform effectively in independent or team environments.
Overview
16
16
years of professional experience
Work History
Research Coordinator
NYU Langone Health Vaccine Center
01.2024 - Current
- Coordinate all aspects of several vaccine clinical trials, including: Recruitment, Pre-screening, Consenting, Screening, Randomization, Enrollment, Long term Follow-up, Off Study
- Ensure protocol compliance and patient safety in accordance with FDA, ICH and GCP guidelines
- Developed and implemented recruitment documents, streamlining participant selection by clearly defining eligibility criteria and effectively targeting suitable candidates for clinical studies
- Facilitate informed consent processes for clinical trial participants, ensuring comprehensive understanding of study protocols and risks
- Schedule and coordinate participant visits and tests and assure that all appropriate study procedures are completed and documented
- Perform data entry and maintenance of source documentation
- Meet and maintain study deadlines (i.e., data locks)
- Study-related communications between research site and collaborating agencies
- Collaborate with PI, research nurse, PA, and pharmacist to ensure patient visits run smoothly and according to protocol
- Facilitate Site Selection, Site Initiation, Interim Monitoring, Remote Monitoring and Closeout visits
- Facilitate proper collection of laboratory samples
- Ensure adverse events and deviations are reported appropriately, accurately and in a timely manner
Research Technician C
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
01.2022 - 09.2022
- Immunofluorescence staining on fixed Vero cells
- Seeding VD60 and Vero cells
- Transfection of different plasmids into Vero cells
- Analysis of sequencing data using Geneious application
- Cloning experiments including colony PCR, transformation and midiprep
- Titered virus
- Used fluorescent microscope
- Performed Immunofluorescence Assays
- Cell culture work including plating, seeding, passaging various strains of Vero cells
- Restriction enzyme digestions
- Virological work including infecting cells, harvesting and titrating with various strains of HSV
- Plaque assays
Lead Clinical Research Coordinator
Montefiore Einstein Center for Cancer Care
10.2016 - 05.2019
- Coordinate all aspects of phase I and II MDS and AML clinical trials
- Ensure protocol compliance and patient safety in accordance with FDA, ICH and GCP guidelines
- Participate in internal audits
- Assist the PI in assuring amended consent forms are appropriately implemented and signed
- Schedule and coordinate participant visits and tests and assure that all appropriate study procedures are completed and documented
- Collect data as required by the protocol and complete case report forms
- Perform data entry and maintenance of source documentation
- Meet and maintain study deadlines (i.e., data locks)
- Study-related communications between research site and collaborating agencies
- Collaborate with PI, research nurse, PA, and pharmacist to ensure patient visits run smoothly and according to protocol
- Facilitate Site Selection, Site Initiation, Interim Monitoring, Remote Monitoring and Closeout visits
- Perform ECG on research patients
- Retrieve, process and ship laboratory and pathology samples
- Ensure adverse events and deviations are reported appropriately, accurately and in a timely manner
- Assist the PI with data analysis for submitting research papers
Research Experience - Part time
Pennsylvania State University
06.2015 - 05.2016
- Analyzed the plaque formation characteristics of clinical isolates of HSV to understand the differences in their virulence
- Cell culture work including plating, seeding, passaging cells
- Virological work including infecting, harvesting multiple strains of HSV
- Staining infected cells and counting the plaques
- Using microscope to take tiled images
- Analysis of virus plaque type and size using NIS-Elements software
Research Experience - Part time
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
06.2009 - 06.2012
- Determined the effect of co-infection of human macrophages by HIV-1 and MTb on each other's replication using a cell culture model, and analyzed the gene expression profile of infected, uninfected and co-infected cultures using RNA-seq
- Genomic & plasmid DNA isolation, isolation of RNA & DNA and RNA analysis
- Mammalian cell culture and DNA Transfection (by CaPO4 precipitation method)
- Isolation and infection of HIV-GFP reporter virus, p24 ELISA
- FACS analysis, Fluorescence microscopy
- Ingenuity pathway analysis software
Education
B.S. - Biology, Psychology
Pennsylvania State University
University Park, PASkills
- Meeting scheduling
- Time management
- Attention to detail
- Multitasking and organization
- Verbal and written communication
- Task prioritization
- Customer service
- Calendar management
- Data entry
- Microsoft office
Creativeinterestsandskills
- Trained holistic singing teacher
- Intermediate Level Salsa Dancer
- Moderate Fluency in Italian
Interests
Timeline
Research Coordinator
NYU Langone Health Vaccine Center
01.2024 - Current
Research Technician C
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
01.2022 - 09.2022
Lead Clinical Research Coordinator
Montefiore Einstein Center for Cancer Care
10.2016 - 05.2019
Research Experience - Part time
Pennsylvania State University
06.2015 - 05.2016
Research Experience - Part time
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
06.2009 - 06.2012
B.S. - Biology, Psychology
Pennsylvania State University
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