LEIGH CHRISTIN CARMODY, PH.D.
19R Salem Rd. Prospect, CT 06712 • 615-293-3607 • [email protected]
CORE CAPABILITIES
Ø Alliance & Project Management: Maintain direct collaborator, client, and/or vendor-facing relations.
Develop project plans including goals, strategy, budget proposals, and resources. Monitor laboratory
projects budgets, timelines, and identify at-risk projects to meet mandated milestones.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
THE JACKSON LABORATORY FOR GENOMIC MEDICINE Farmington, CT •
Nov. 2015-Present
Research Project Manager, Weinstock Laboratory
• Monitor the progress of 50+ cross-site, NextGen sequencing collaborations with academic
laboratories, clinicians, and industrial collaborators.
• Projects analyze microbiome, virome, or genome sequence data from environ./clinical samples.
• Identify at-risk projects and manage project timelines.
• Build budgets, develop cost estimates, provide invoicing for grants and collaborations.
• Provide NIH and non-NIH grant summaries, yearly reviews, and other required documents.
• Facilitate collaboration agreements, MTAs, and IRB approval required for collaborations.
• Disease areas: oncology, infectious diseases, liver disease, obesity, and cognitive deficits.
BROAD INSTITUTE OF MIT & HARVARD, Cambridge, MA •
Nov. 2008-Aug. 2015
Project Lead/Senior Scientist, Cellular Pharmacology • May 2014-Aug. 2015
• Manage bio. experiments for preclinical, medicinal chemistry campaign to target Chagas disease.
• Direct liaison with academic collaborators (Harvard, UCSF, NYU) and industry partner, Eisai Pharm.
• Manage and train scientists on assay design, high content screening, automation, and data analysis.
• Create project plans and monitor project progression.
Project Lead/Research Scientist I-II, Assay Development, Therapeutics • Nov. 2008- Apr. 2014
• Lead matrix teams of multidisciplinary scientists to conduct hit-to-lead (drug) discovery efforts for
several large-scale, multi-year HTS research projects. Oversee 3-4 projects at a time..
• Scientific lead supporting strategic initiatives and writing for foundation-sponsored research grants.
• Project lead & liaison with domestic and global leaders in the pharmaceutical industry and academia.
• Advise with scientists on experimental design, data analysis, and grant writing. Co-developed and
conducted an assay development and HTS workshop for internal and external scientists.
• Manage primary research conducted internally or externally at CROs, pharma, or academic institutes.
• Biologist representative to develop internal compound- and analytical-ordering software package.
• Scientific lead supporting strategic initiatives and writing for foundation-sponsored research grants.
• Disease areas studied: Breast cancer stem cell differentiation, squamous cell carcinoma,
neurogliomas, infectious disease, neurodevelopment and cognitive disorders.
INDEPENDENT TECHNICAL CONSULTANT, Boston, MA •
May –June 2011, May 2012 (~10 hrs/week)
Assay Development Consultant, part-time concurrent to my position at the Broad Institute
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As a continuation of a project at the Broad Institute, consulted on experimental design,
methodology, and project management for biotech companies focused on cancer stem cell research.
MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, Cambridge, MA •
July 2007-Nov. 2008
Postdoctoral Fellow, Picower Inst. of Learning & Memory/Dept. of Brain & Cognitive Sciences
• Investigated the role of tumor-related gene, Rac1, in dendritic spine motility and synapse
development using mouse in vivo models.
BRIGHAM & WOMEN’S HOSPITAL, Boston, MA •
Oct. 1998-July 2000
Research Assistant I-III, Division of Women’s Health
• Provided comprehensive research support in two labs studying insulin signaling in normal, diabetic,
and polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) patients.
• Served as lab manager while the P.I. established a new lab in Israel.
PRIMARY EDUCATION
Ph.D., Mol. Physiology & Biophysics • Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN
Sep. 2000- Mar. 2007
• Investigated molecular mechanisms of synapse development in Parkinson’s disease. Awarded twoyear competitive training grant, travel grants, and poster award. Taught methodology classes to
graduate students; panel judge for the Neuroscience department’s mock-qualifying exam. Started an
internal mentor program for incoming graduate students.
B.A., Biology (major), Chemistry (minor) • Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, PA Sept. 1993- May 1997
• Awarded Howard Hughes Summer Research stipend.
CONTINUING EDUCATION
University of Connecticut • Business Analytics & Project Management. Courses: Process Modeling &
Data Management, Intro to Project Management. Hartford, CT, Fall 2015
MassBioEd• Course: Biotechnology Project Management. Topics: Product dev., regulatory environment,
organizational structures, project initiation, scheduling, and alliances. Cambridge, MA, Spring 2015
Babson Uni. • Evening MBA Leading Innovation: Creating Organic Growth. Bos., MA, Summer 2014
Drexel Uni. • Clinical Management (Online). Course: Pharmaceutical Law. Phila., PA, Summer 2010
Massachusetts Institute of Technology• Media Lab/Neuroscience. Course: Neurotechnology
Ventures; Cambridge, MA, Fall 2008
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
Laboratory Robotics Interest Group, 2013-2015 • Society for Laboratory Automation and Screening, 20102015 • Women Entrepreneurs in Science and Technology, 2011-2012 • Healthcare Business Women’s
Association (Boston Chapter), 2008-2011 • Society for Neuroscience, 2001-2009
CIVIC INVOLVEMENT/VOLUNTEER
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Manuscript Referee, Journal of Biomolecular Screening, Sept. 2013-Aug. 2015
Co-President, Blackberry Tree Condo Trust, Allston, MA, Sept. 2010-Sept. 2012
Volunteer, ACEing Autism, Weymouth, MA, Sept. 2011-Feb. 2012
News Editor, Society for Laboratory Automation and Screening, Jan. 2010- Jan. 2011
Advertisement Committee Writer, Healthcare Businesswomen’s Assoc., Cambridge, MA, Jan.- May
2010
SELECTED PRESENTATIONS
Speaker, Molecular Devices HCS users meeting, Taipei, Taiwan and Shanghai, China, October 2013
Title: “HCS investigating E-selectin regulation as a possible therapy for squamous cell carcinoma”
• Speaker, Bayer Healthcare-Broad Institute Cancer meeting, Wupertal, Germany, September 2013
Title: “Cancer Phenotypic Screening Workshop: High content screening/imaging”
• Speaker/Panelist, Broad Institute ‘Broad-E Workshop’, Cambridge, MA, May 2013
Title: “Developing Small Molecule HTS screens with the Therapeutics Platform”
• Speaker, Chagas Disease Drug Consortium, GlaxoSmithKline, Tres Cantos, Spain, April 2012
Title: “HTS Screening of Diversity-Oriented Synthesis compound collection against T. cruzi”
• Speaker, World Pharma Congress, Philadelphia, PA, June 2011
Title: “Identifying Compound Leads for Breast Cancer Stem Cells”
TRAVEL
Lived Abroad: Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam: English Teacher. Taught English, London School. Apr.-Jul. 1998
Sde Boqer, Israel: Ecology Internship, Jacob Blaustein Inst.., Ben Gurion Uni. July-Aug. 1996
Extensive Travel for work and for pleasure: United States and Canada • Central America and the Caribbean •
Western Europe • Middle East • East and Southeast Asia
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