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Pathik Rakesh Desai

26 Haskell St, Apt 2, Boston, MA-02134 |857.206.5525| [email protected]|https://www.linkedin.com/in/pathik-desai-/

Core Competencies

Cell Culture: Primary immune cells, Mammalian (THP1, Raji, RAMOS, H929, HEK-293, RAW 264.7, PANC-1), SF9, SF13

Protein Analytics: Purification (Affinity, SEC, SCX, AEX, IMAC); UF/DF; MSD, Delfia, A280, HPLC, UPLC, Pierce 660.

Molecular Biology: Reporter assays, SiRNA, Plasmid Purification and isolation; DNA & RNA extraction; RT-PCR; qPCR.

Software: FlowJo, SAS JMP, Unicorn 7.0, EMPOWER, Chemstation, Sparklink, ELN-LIMS, Graphpad, Compass, Licor, Dotmatics.

Equipment: AKTA Pure 25, AKTA Avant 25, AKTA Avant 150, AKTA Explorer, Agilent 1200, Waters Acquity, Bio-Rad Imager, LICOR,
Charles River endotoxin reader, Alias Auto Sampler, Scilog TFF, Protein Simple WES and PEGGY.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Senior Research Associate, Biology, Celgene, Cambridge, MA January 2018 – Present


 Isolate PBMCs and monocytes for functional readouts using luciferase reporter assays.
 Receptor internalization analysis using FACs.
 Develop an ELISA platform for High Throughput screening of target proteins.
 Screen Small molecule PROTACS and generate Dose Response Curves in Mammalian cells.
 Transient and Stable transfection to generate disease relevant Cell lines.
 Perform Immunoprecipitations using polyclonal antibodies and Small molecule conjugated beads.
 Dose, Lyse, Desalt, TMT label and fractionate samples for fingerprinting using LC/MS.

QC Associate I (Contract), Molecular Biology, Brammerbio, Cambridge, MA October 2017- January 2018
 Perform qPCR and ELISA to determine AAV2 and AAV6 Viral titers.
 Instrument Validation in accordance to cGMP regulations

Research Co-op, Momenta Pharmaceuticals, Cambridge, MA January 2017- June 2017


 Develop HIC and Ion Exchange purification modalities for antibodies, Resulting in a single component pure compound.
 Charactize final probes using SEC, SDS-PAGE, and LAL testing.
 Conduct large scale Protein A, SCX, and Multicolumn purifications.
 Use DOE, Study Effect of Depth filtration on highly concentrated IVIG solutions.
 Evaluate multiple colorimetric protein kits for protein quantification.
 Perform Western Blots to detect presence of ubiquitinated proteins.

Research Assistant, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, MA April 2016- December 2016
 Purify His tagged proteins.
 Treat Murine Macrophages and analyze lysates to study activation of various secondary messengers.
 Genotype mice using agarose gel electrophoresis.

SEMINARS/ WORKSHOPS:
 Basic experimental setup for Gene-Editing with Crispr/Cas systems. -The Zhang Lab, Broad Institute
 Building biological systems, Genome synthesis and genome editing -Coursera

EDUCATION

M.S Pharmaceutical Sciences NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY June 2017

Bachelor of Pharmacy M.E.T, University of Mumbai, India May 2015

ACADEMIC PROJECT
Project: Compare antioxidant activity of three plants of the family Zingiberaceae, Namely zingiber officinale, curcuma amada and
curcuma longa.

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