Andrew Bondoc

Experience

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  Public Health Ontario

  Jun 2011 - Aug 2011

  Student Laboratory Assistant

  • Receiving/handling biohazardous specimens from medical labs and hospitals throughout Ontario• Scanning specimens, logging specimens and assigning tests, managing sample data• Using Class I and II Biological Safety Cabinets to handle and prepare specimens• HIV/HTLV lab: transferring, aliquoting, pipetting, preparing specimens for PCR viral load monitoring

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  Lawson Research Institute

  Jul 2012 - Oct 2015

  • Determined cardiac function in a model of Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) via three-dimensional ultrasound• Assessed glucose metabolism and cardiac perfusion in the mouse heart via PET and dynamic contrast-enhanced CT• Isolated mouse cardiac stem cells via flow cytometry and implemented a minimally-invasive, ultrasound-guided injection technique to transplant these cells into the hearts of live mice• Generated PET/Bioluminescence reporter systems for non-invasively tracking cells in vivo• Immunohistochemistry, immunocytochemistry, and fluorescence microscopy to provide proof-of-principle for aforementioned techniques Show less

  • Research Assistant

    Jan 2015 - Oct 2015

  • Graduate Researcher

    Sept 2012 - Dec 2014

  • Summer Research Assistant

    Jul 2012 - Aug 2012
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  The Hospital for Sick Children

  Nov 2015 - now

  • Managed Toronto arm of a multi-site international research project, coordinating a 5-member team and leveraging a $400k budget, developing immune therapies for pediatric brain tumours• Coordinated and documented research activities for 7 projects that resulted in manuscripts published or in-press; presented research at international symposium with 1,400 attendees• Implemented and managed 2 new lab collaboration platforms for a team of 12 researchers, boosting productivity, elevating teamwork, and reducing communication errors Show less • Coordinated daily operation and research activities of 20 researchers within 2 laboratories• Managed 30 shared equipment resources for a research centre comprised of 11 investigators, including setup of 10 pieces of core equipment and computer systems• Crafted persuasive proposals that secured over $10k in internal research funding for equipment• Mentored and supervised research activities of 6 clinical fellows and 14 summer research students, of which 6 proceeded to medical school and 4 pursued graduate studies• Optimized and validated a pre-clinical surgical technique, reducing time expenditure by 50% and increasing accuracy/reproducibility by 35% Show less

  • Senior Project Manager

    Jul 2022 - now

  • Lab Research Project Manager

    Feb 2019 - Jul 2022

  • Research Technologist II

    Nov 2015 - Feb 2019