Michael Frimpong
Brookings,SD
Summary
An enthusiastic person with knowledge in Chemistry, Data Science, Cancer Immunotherapy and Biochemistry. I have experience working in oncology and chemistry labs and the use of tools (instruments) for data acquisition. I have advanced knowledge in the usage of R programming for analysis of complex data. My passion is to integrate my knowledge into identifying molecules important in disease for drug targeting.
Overview
5
5
years of professional experience
Work History
Graduate Teaching Assistant
Department Of Chemistry, South Dakota State Uni
2019.02 - Current
- Mentored students through office hours and one-on-one communication.
- Documented attendance and completed assignments to maintain full class and student records.
- Taught chemistry (Chem 112 and Chem 106) and organic chemistry labs.
- Responsible for lab kick offs and demonstration of the use of instruments relevant to the lab
- Proctored examinations and prevented student cheating.
Graduate Research Assistant
Sanford Research
2018.02 - 2019.02
- Performed statistical, qualitative and quantitative analysis.
- Worked on the following projects: Using 3D cell culture model to predict drug efficacy's in breast cancer cell line and structural determination of HMG domain of SOX2 Protein
- Performed experiments using laboratory instrument to confirm hypothesis
- Gathered, reviewed, and summarized literature from scientific journals such as SciFinder and PubMed and produced graphs and other scientific calculations using MS Excel.
- Recorded data and maintained source documentation following good documentation practices.
Education
Ph.D. - Chemistry
South Dakota State University
Brookings, SD07.2023
Master of Science - Data Science
South Dakota State University
Brookings, SD06.2023
Master of Science - Cancer Immunology And Biotechnology
University of Nottingham
United Kingdom08.2015
Bachelor of Science - Biochemistry
Kwame Nkrumah University of Science And Technology
Ghana08.2013
Skills
- Cell culturing and preparation for downstream experiment
- HPLC, IR, GCMS, NMR,
- PCR, Flow cytometry, spectrophotometry
- Gel electrophoresis
- Program Improvements
- Team Meetings
- Advanced R programming
- Python programming
- SQL
- Machine Learning
- Biological and Oncology Research
- Bioinformatics
- Tensorflow and Keras
Accomplishments
Clinical Data Science
- Hands on experience in the use of electronic health records and informatics tools to perform clinical data science
- Wrote SQL code to fetch data from Google cloud for analysis in R
- Used R and SQL to develop a computational phenotyping algorithm to identify patients who have hypertension
- Downloaded breast cancer data from The Cancer Genome Atlas database
- Preprocessed data to identify tumor and normal samples Performed feature selection to identify differentially expressed genes
- Performed differential gene expression using the limma package
- Performed classification on the data using KNN and Random forest algorithm
Timeline
Graduate Teaching Assistant
Department Of Chemistry, South Dakota State Uni
2019.02 - Current
Graduate Research Assistant
Sanford Research
2018.02 - 2019.02
Ph.D. - Chemistry
South Dakota State University
Master of Science - Data Science
South Dakota State University
Master of Science - Cancer Immunology And Biotechnology
University of Nottingham
Bachelor of Science - Biochemistry
Kwame Nkrumah University of Science And Technology
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