Alka Rani, Life Science Consultant

Alka Rani

Life Science Consultant

Freelance

Location
United Arab Emirates - Abu Dhabi
Education
Doctorate, Biotechnology
Experience
12 years, 2 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :12 years, 2 Months

Life Science Consultant at Freelance
  • India - Navi Mumbai
  • My current job since May 2020

• Developed and conceptualized 2 projects for funding agencies among which one got funded • Researched several new ideas from the microbiology and nutrition field • Partnered with other freelancers for bigger projects • Standardized RT-PCR technique in a new laboratory • Recognized useful biochemistry and molecular biology techniques to reach an objective • Scientific writing assistance • Reviewed life science manuscripts for 2 prestigious journals

DST-INSPIRE PhD Fellow at IRSHA, Bharati Vidyapeeth University, Pune
  • India - Pune
  • June 2013 to April 2020

• Worked on longitudinal, cross-sectional and retrospective human projects with a large sample size • Pre-clinical epidemiological, nutrient supplementation, follow-up and clinical biomarker identification studies in collaboration with hospitals and clinicians • Cause and effect analysis and interpretation • Primary data collection, cleaning, analysis and interpretation • Disease model of human and animals • Prepared manuscripts, reports, posters and presentations • Assisted in several proposals for conceptualization, writing, budgeting, form preparations, ethics approval and presentation for funding agencies • Organized national seminars and conferences • Human blood and tissue sample collection, processing and handling • Hands-on experience of biochemistry and molecular biology techniques • Standardization experience of techniques like histopathology and immunohistochemistry

Project Assistant at Armets Biotek
  • India - Chennai
  • October 2011 to November 2012

Product development of liquid bio-fertilizers from new strains of the bacteria

Education

Doctorate, Biotechnology
  • at IRSHA, Bharati Vidyapeeth University
  • March 2020

INSPIRE fellowship from DST, Govt. of India to pursue direct PhD

Bachelor's degree, BIOTECHNOLOGY
  • at DR MGR UNIVERSITY
  • June 2011

Gold Medalist (1st Rank) in the University

Specialties & Skills

Biotechnology
BUDGETING
CONFERENCES
DATA COLLECTION
INTERPRETATION
POSTERS
PRESENTATION SKILLS
PROPOSAL WRITING
SEMINARS
DEVELOPMENT
ADOBE PHOTOSHOP

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