Nicholas Abuid

• Initiated and assisted in meetings with customers/collaborators on experimental design and proteins for antibody discovery, screening, and immunization
• Presented company's products and innovations in over 10 online and in-person conferences in 4-month span which led to employee of month award
• Collaborated with marketing team to write and design newsletters showcasing recombinant protein products, services, and applications for COVID-19, cancer immune therapy, autoimmunity, fibrosis, and neuroscience
• This initiative led to second consecutive Employee of month award
• Lead new product line development on mutated Fc receptors for Siglecs and other immune-oncology targets
• Initiated technical training program for sales and marketing team on recombinant proteins to facilitate scientific communication with customers
• This initiative led to third employee of month award.

• Managed Customer Experience Center and orchestrated instrument demonstrations for potential customers.
• Provided scientific support to biotech customers in New England, New York, and Canada.
• Execute presale presentations, meetings, and discussions from a technical and scientific standpoint.
• Trained and taught scientists on using the instrument, experiment setup, and data processing and analysis.

• Developed a Layer-by-Layer technique to functionalize the surface of materials with antioxidant nanoparticles
• Leveraged Cerium Oxide Nanoparticle coatings to alleviate oxidative stress to cell therapies and assessed coatings' ability to mitigate host response to biomaterial implants in vitro/in vivo leading to NIH T32 Fellowship
• Prepared 6 literature reports, presentations, patents, and submissions to peer-review journals and supervised 10 undergraduate students working on research projects.

Quantitative Physiology and Tissue Engineering Laboratory