Tenax Therapeutics Inc (TENX)

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Walter F Leise III’s Experience

Senior Researcher
Abbott Laboratories
(Public Company; ABT; Medical Devices industry)
June 2006 — Present (4 years 7 months)
• • Manage and direct the research of several scientists, Master and Ph.D. Level.
• Coordinate 10-20 global collaborations with multiple target-discovery efforts and support groups.
• Develop innovative solutions to complex problems and business challenges to improve productivity and reproducibility.
• Conduct 2-5 projects simultaneously that support project teams by providing technical expertise and guidance in addition actual purified recombinant proteins, recombinant molecules, and therapeutic antibodies.
• Design, generate, optimize, and characterize recombinant proteins/therapeutic antibodies.
• During a 4 months period, I cloned and expression tested 400 human and mouse genes to identify novel targets.
• Catalyzed the continued development of an expression method that allows a protein complex, such as an antibody, to be expressed from a single open reading frame. The antibodies created during this screen were examined with three ELISA assays I optimized.
• Developed high-throughput antibody cloning platform using novel molecular techniques.