Experience — Estelle Hess

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Experiences

Identify targets and elucidate mechanisms of action of a drug candidate in the field of thromboinflammation with a focus on neutrophils
Responsible for the scientific oversight and design of research projects
Responsible for CRO selection, scientific and financial monitoring

Responsible for CROs monitoring
Task planning and tracking of milestones

Managed the R&D immunology team (5 people - PhD, MSc and technicians) for the development of new veterinary diagnostic kits
Provided customer support
Responsible for the cell culture facility (monoclonal antibody, virus and parasite production)

Developed veterinary diagnostic kits, including ELISA and point-of-care testing
Responsible for the cell culture facility (monoclonal antibody, virus and parasite production)

Studied the dog oral commensal Capnocytophaga canimorsus which causes rare but severe infections in humans
Wrote and carried out projects funded by the ERC and by the Walloon Region
Published 5 scientific papers (2 as a first author)
Scaning of scientific literature, writing scientific publications and patent
Training and supervision of students and technicians
Development of new protocols to study host-pathogen interactions
Redaction of ethic proposals for evaluation by animal experimentation committee

Unraveled new functions of the Receptor Activator of NF- κB Ligand in the control of adult lymph node plasticity and hair follicles cycle
Designing and conducting experiments
Management of different murine models
Scaning of scientific literature and writing scientific publications
Granting of two personal funding (3 years from the French Ministère de l’Education Nationale de la Recherche et de la Technologie and 1 year from the Ligue contre le cancer association)

Characterization of T cell proliferation and activation in RANK-transgenic mice
Perform experiment, analyze data and report results