Rachel Schaefer

Background

About Rachel Schaefer

SUMMARY Scientist with 7 years of industry experience in research and development (R&D) and 7 years of experience in academic research. Flexible with the ability to take on various roles as required within projects from technical leadership to laboratory scientist. Driven to release high quality work and skilled at troubleshooting, improving assays and products to meet the needs of the business and customers. Experienced at working with cross-functional teams to successfully develop and release new products.>Immunostaining – Optimized and performed Immunohistochemistry (IHC) and Immunofluorescence (IF) assays manually or with autostainers including Leica Biosystems’ Bond RX and ran quantitative data analysis.>Technical Leadership – Directed 3-4 team members and planned laboratory research for the development of new products, generated timelines and kept team on track, and presented progress at project meetings.>Troubleshooting – Relied on as the ‘go to’ team member skilled at identifying and solving issues.>Imaging – Performed whole slide fluorescence and brightfield imaging with Akoya Biosciences’ PhenoImager® HT, confocal microscopy with live cells, and in vivo imaging using Revvitys’ ‎IVIS™ Lumina.>Image Analysis – Used Akoya Biosciences’ inForm® and Posits’ RStudio to perform cell segmentation, phenotyping, cell count, and intensity and background measurements.>Verification and Validation (V&V) – Performed experiments and ran data analysis verifying and validating new products, created figures, and authored verification reports.