Sydney Kemp

Organized and dependable candidate successful at managing multiple priorities with a positive attitude. Willingness to take on added responsibilities to meet team goals. Working as a personal trainer while strengthening medical school applications.

• Bison on the Run, Founder, President, 05/01/23, 12/31/24
• Veterans Association D.C. Medical Center, D.C., Serve as a patient advocate, 02/01/23, 12/31/24
• Capital Area Food Bank, Work with the boxing, sorting, and delivery departments, 01/01/22, 12/31/24
• Jack and Jill of America Inc., Volunteered at an African-American organization, 01/01/16, 12/31/20

Research Intern, 06/2023 to 08/2023

Merck Research Laboratories - Cambridge, MA

• Worked in the immunology platform on the macrophage polarization team studying different possible functional assays to determine the difference between M0 and M2 macrophages. Learned techniques such as MSD, RNA isolation, monocyte isolation from PBMC's, TaqMan PCR, Incucyte Nuclight, CellTiter Glo, cDNA synthesis, macrophage polarization, ELISA etc. Performed project analysis using MSD Workbench, GraphPad Prism and Signals Electronic Notebook. Learned proper industry standard laboratory techniques and methods.

Research Trainee, 06/2022 to 08/2022

MD Anderson Cancer Center - Houston, Texas

• Worked with Research Assistant II, PhD Fellow, MD/PhD (PI) in the immunotherapy platform working with melanoma cancer. Developed a deep understanding of the experimental process and immunological research techniques including mice necropsy, splenocyte isolation, single cell suspension, single cell RNA sequencing, cell culturing, flow cytometry, ELISA, ChIP-sequencing, etc. Chose an antigen presentation assay in KDM6B deleted macrophages as final project and presented findings to laboratory PI and at MD Anderson immunology platform's laboratory meeting.

Research Intern, 06/2021 to 08/2021

Howard University (SURP) - Remote

• Focused on studying white blood cells in Rhesus macaques with the goal of identifying the different types of white blood cells (WBC) in non-human primates (NHP) to determine a healthy monkey from a sick monkey. Project was led by Zooniverse where I reported my findings to their site.