1. Broad Institute and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Cambridge, MA
Experience Research Technician (Medical Oncology, Bass Lab), July 2016–present
â–ª Analyzed somatic mutations, copy number alterations, and clinical data to study intertumor heterogeneity in 921 TCGA cancer patients
â–ª Analyzed whole exome and multi-region targeted deep sequencing data for paired primary and metastatic tumor to study intratumor heterogeneity in gastroesophageal adenocarcinoma (GEA)
â–ª Performed cell secretome, drug treatment, and biochemical experiments to elucidate the mechanism of Lapatinib resistance in GEA
â–ª Performed gene expression profiling to characterize novel long-lived stem cells progenitor in mouse esophagus
2. German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany
Summer Internship (Epigenomics, Assenov Lab), Aug 2015–Sept 2015
â–ª Performed differential and exploratory analysis of gene expression, DNA methylation, and clinical information for 200 TCGA AML patients to improve AML classification system
â–ª Developed novel method for integrating DNA methylation and gene expression profiles to improve consensus clustering in R
3. University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Research Assistant (Pharmacology, Mohamed Lab), Jan 2015–June 2016
â–ª Measured plasma baseline levels of 32 circulating cytokines in Malaysian AML patients to study comparative baseline variability among different subgroup of AML
â–ª Reported 10 cytokines baseline level for the first time in AML
â–ª Classified AML patients based on cytokine expression profiling
4. Children’s Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA), Los Angeles, CA
Summer Fellowship (Hematology Unit, Gaynon Lab), June 2015–July 2015
â–ª Performed a retrospective analysis of treatment outcomes for AML patients over the last 10 years to observe the variation in patients’ survival rates
5. Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan
Summer Internship (Molecular Biology, Chao Lab), April 2015–May 2015
â–ª Identified the role of MLL-GAS7 oncofusion protein in AML
6. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA
Visiting Student (Life Science Division, Cooper Lab), July 2015–July 2015
â–ª Conducted CRISPR-Cas9 system-based gene knockout experiment in mammalian cell line
7. University of Dhaka, Dhaka, Bangladesh
Summer Internship (BMB Dept., Haque Lab), June 2012–July 2012
â–ª Determined antimicrobial, antioxidant, and cytotoxic activities of Myrtaceae plant alkaloid
8. Bio-Bio-1, Dhaka, Bangladesh
Research Student (Bioinformatics, Chakraborty Lab), Dec 2011–March 2013
â–ª Performed comparative sequence-structure analysis of Aves insulin
â–ª Designed epitope-based peptide vaccine candidate against C. difficile 630
â–ª Conducted a systematic analysis of bioinformatics-based research potential in Bangladesh
â–ª Learned programming languages R and Python to conduct bioinformatics- based research
9. University of Dhaka, Dhaka, Bangladesh
Research Student (BMB Dept., Kabir Lab), Jan 2011–Jan 2012
â–ª Conducted a demographic survey of antibiotic use in Bangladesh to monitor the common practice of antibiotic
â–ª Assessed the feasibility of electronic health record database to improve coordination of healthcare and to aid clinical decision making