Elyse Shimomura
About
Elyse Shimomura is from Honolulu, Hawaii, United States. Elyse works in the following industries: "Hospitals and Health Care". Elyse is currently Program Manager at PACIFIC MEDICAL ADMINISTRATIVE GROUP, INC, located in Honolulu, HI. Elyse also works as Associate Scientist II at SutroVax Inc., a job Elyse has held since Jul 2015. In Elyse's previous role as a Research Associate at Santa Clara University: Department of Bioengineering, Elyse worked in Santa Clara, CA until Jun 2015. Prior to joining Santa Clara University: Department of Bioengineering, Elyse was a Teaching Assistant at Santa Clara University: Department of Bioengineering and held the position of Teaching Assistant at Santa Clara, CA. Prior to that, Elyse was a Research Internship at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, based in Shanghai City, China from Jun 2013 to Aug 2013. Elyse started working as Health Care Ethics Internship at O'Connor Hospital in Sep 2012.
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Elyse Shimomura's current jobs
SutroVax is an independent vaccine platform and development company whose mission is to deliver best-in-class conjugate vaccines and novel complex antigen-based vaccines to prevent deadly infectious diseases. The company is leveraging its exclusive license to Sutro Biopharma’s Xpress CF platforms to perform cell-free protein synthesis and site-specific conjugation for the field of vaccines. SutroVax closed its Series A round in 2015 and is financed by an international syndicate of experienced, blue-chip venture capital and corporate venture investors. For more information, visit www.sutrovax.com.
Elyse Shimomura's past jobs
• Successfully designed experiments for cloning gene targets into plasmid vectors • Optimized bacterial protein expression and purification protocols • Developed assays to characterize the functionality of novel proteins and peptides • Completed senior design project on in vivo protein interactions using the tetracycline mammalian two-hybrid system (trM2H) to identify breast cancer biomarkers and potential therapeutic drug targets • Assisted the reverse engineering of green fluorescent protein (GFP) into iGFP, a significantly shorter peptide that still retains fluorescence, to prove that peptides can be functionally active. Publication in preparation
• Designed curriculum for upper-division lab courses • Help students design experiments • Successfully taught students fundamental lab techniques and good laboratory practice • Encouraged students to develop critical thinking skills for experimental problem solving
• Validated the potency of synthetic inhibitors of protein SortaseA, a promising drug target that has created a new class of anti-infective drugs • Performed large scale protein purifications • Conducted fluorescent assays to identify novel drug candidates against Staphylococcus aureus
Shadowed Physicians, RNs, and other professional health care workers to learn more about ethical dilemmas in medicine that compromise the quality of healthcare. Rotated in various departments including hospice and palliative care.