Professional Experience

2008 - present, Assistant Research Professor, Mass Spectrometry & Proteomics, Beckman Research Institute of City of Hope, Duarte, CA

2008 - present, Manager, Mass Spectrometry & Proteomics Facility, Beckman Research Institute of City of Hope, Duarte, CA

2006 - 2008, Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California at Los Angeles, CA

Education and Training

2004 - 2006, Cole Eye Institute, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH, Fight for Sight Postdoctoral Research Fellow

2003, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, Department of Chemistry, Ph.D., Chemistry

1996, Polytechnic University Bucharest, Romania, Department of Organic Chemistry, M.S.,“Pharmaceuticals and Cosmetics”

1995, Polytechnic University Bucharest, Romania, Department of Organic Chemistry, B.S., Engineer of “Organic Chemistry - Technology of Organic Compounds”

This is an abbreviated document. Full CV available upon request. Information on this page may be self-reported and is subject to change at any time. Last updated: 02/10.

2007, Keystone Symposia Scholarship

2005, Fight for Sight Post-doctoral Fellowship “Lipofuscin lipid and protein modifications in age-related macular degeneration”

2004, Fight for Sight Post-doctoral Fellowship “Lipofuscin lipid and protein modifications in age-related macular degeneration”

1995, Polytechnic University of Bucharest, First Prize, Scientific Communications Contest, Section of Organic Chemistry, Paper "5H-Dibenzo[a,d] cycloheptenic compounds”

1992, Polytechnic University of Bucharest, First Prize, Scientific Communications Contest, Section of Inorganic Chemistry, Paper “Template Reactions"