- 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
New York, NY
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
Bronx, NY
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
Bronx, NY
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
University Park, PA
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
Bronx, NY
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