Chengya Liang, MD, PhD, MBA

Chengya Liang, MD, PhD, MBA

San Francisco Bay Area
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As an accomplished marketing leader with proven track record on both upstream and…

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Experience

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    Vector Laboratories, Inc.

    San Francisco Bay Area

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    Boston, Massachusetts, United States

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    Washington DC

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Education

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    Cornell University

    Activities and Societies: Areas of Concentration: Marketing, Strategy and General Management • Served as Vice President and Board Member of Biotech and Healthcare Club • Successfully completed Marketing/Strategy Internship • Served as active members of Marketing Association and General Management Association

  • Activities and Societies: Areas of concentration: Reproductive and Developmental Toxicology • Designed and conducted pre-clinical toxicity study • Developed gestational diabetes mouse model; explored effects of maternal malnutrition and antioxidant on fetal maldevelopment and adult-onset cardiovascular diseases • Identified gene expression pathways involved in placental and fetal osteogenic signaling • Served as a Research Assistant and Teaching Assistant • Evaluated 100 Doctor of Veterinary students’ performance

    • Dissertation was awarded a platform presentation at National Society of Toxicology (SOT) Annual National Conference
    • Published 15+ conference and journal papers in renowned journals
    • Published a book chapter

    • Presented the PhD research at 11 national and international conferences

    • Served as members of Society of Toxicology, National Capital Area Chapter of Society of Toxicology and Society of Teratology

  • Activities and Societies: Areas of concentration: Neuroscience research on traumatic brain injury • Investigated inflammatory signal transduction network involved in traumatic brain injury • Indentified potential pharmacological treatment strategies to ameliorate certain neuronal dysfunctions • Served as a Research Assistant and Teaching Assistant. • Taught Human Physiology lab for undergraduate courses. • Evaluated lab performance of 90 undergraduate students.

    • Thesis was awarded as a platform presentation at the most widely attended Neuroscience Conference in the world
    • Published four conferences papers and presented research findings at four national conferences
    • Served as members of Society of Neuroscience and Society of Neurotrauma

  • Activities and Societies: Areas of concentration: Clinical Medicine • Served as President of Student Goverment • Led and organized several large on-campus activities for students and faculty • Organized local environmental protection community services • Offered free physical exams for local residents • Sponsored workshops to educate people on the recognition and prevention of common diseases

    • Received an MD degree with high distinction
    • Published two papers and two patents, and presented at National Hospital Management and Construction Conference

  • Activities and Societies: Mental and Emotional Release (MER), Hypnotherapy, Design individual interventions; Meta Programs; Elicitation of Values; installations and utilization of strategies; Refined use of Sub modalities; Negotiations; Modeling

Licenses & Certifications

Volunteer Experience

  • Team Leader

    Women’s Health Virginia

    Health

    Women's Health Virginia (WHV) is a nonprofit organization enhancing the health and well being of women and girls in Virginia.

    As the team leader of the Professional Social Media marketing group, Chengya was in charge of increasing the organization’s web exposure to attract business cooperation and fundraising.

  • Business Innovation Council Member

    VA Regional Chamber of Commerce & Business Innovation Council

    Economic Empowerment

    Regional Chamber of Commerce & Business Innovation is a organization focus on the most pressing business innovation issues and challenges.

    As a active member of this organization, Chengya actively participated in and contributed to Business Women’s Round Table and other events focused on business management topics.

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    Quality Control Coordinator

    Cradles to Crayons

    Children

    Cradles to Crayons's mission is providing to children ages 0 to 12 some of the most important basics of life—free of charge.

    As a volunteer, Chengya helped on sorting and controlling quality for donated clothes for kids.

  • Science and Engineering Design Process Judge

    The Tech Museum of Innovation

    Science and Technology

    The Tech Museum of Innovation offers a signature program, The Tech Challenge, which is an annual team design challenger for students in grades 5-12 that introduces and reinforces the science and engineering design process with a hands-on project geared to solving a real-world problem. The program is designed to inspire the net generation of Silicon Valley innovators.

    As a judge of the 27th Annual The Tech Challenge presented by Cisco, Chengya was responsible for judging the science and…

    The Tech Museum of Innovation offers a signature program, The Tech Challenge, which is an annual team design challenger for students in grades 5-12 that introduces and reinforces the science and engineering design process with a hands-on project geared to solving a real-world problem. The program is designed to inspire the net generation of Silicon Valley innovators.

    As a judge of the 27th Annual The Tech Challenge presented by Cisco, Chengya was responsible for judging the science and engineering design process for different student teams.

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    STEM Education Coordinator

    ASSET STEM Education

    Education

    ASSET STEM Education is a national Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) education improvement nonprofit. It fosters STEM fluency and college/career readiness by providing educators of students pre-K through career with highly effective professional development, hands-on educational materials and consulting services.

    As a mineral sorting coordinator, Chengya helped on sorting and packing different minerals for students' geography and science education.

  • Activity Volunteer

    Boys and Girls Clubs of America

    Children

    Boys & Girls Clubs of America is a national organization of local chapters which provide after-school programs for young people.

    As an activity volunteer, Chengya interacted with children in the club for their physical activities, musical video performance and game playing.

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    Scientific Equipment Quality Control Volunteer

    Seeding Labs

    Poverty Alleviation

    Seeding Labs comes are a 501c3 non-profit organization that empowers talented scientists in developing countries to conduct life-changing research. Seeding Labs provides scientists and their students with lab equipment, training and the opportunity to collaborate with other experts in their field – and use these vital resources to achieve great things.

    As a scientific research equipment quality control volunteer, Chengya used her scientific knowledge to help catalog, inspect and tag…

    Seeding Labs comes are a 501c3 non-profit organization that empowers talented scientists in developing countries to conduct life-changing research. Seeding Labs provides scientists and their students with lab equipment, training and the opportunity to collaborate with other experts in their field – and use these vital resources to achieve great things.

    As a scientific research equipment quality control volunteer, Chengya used her scientific knowledge to help catalog, inspect and tag equipment and supplies that have been donated to Seeding Labs and made sure they are all in high quality. The lab equipment Chengya and her fellow colleagues inspected and cataloged are sent to many poor regions' university labs such as universities in Africa.

  • Project Leader

    Summer Community Service Camp of China

    Civil Rights and Social Action

    Summer Community Service Camp of China (SCSCC) is a volunteer group with the mission to enhance China's community health.

    As the leader of the group, Chengya organized healthcare forums in China to call for changes in community health through personal responsibilities and to identify solutions for China’s healthcare challenges.

Publications

  • Beverly Rzigalinski, Igor Danelisen, Elizabeth Strawn, Courtney Cohen, Chengya Liang. Nanoparticles for Cell Engineering - A Radical Concept.Tissue, Cell and Organ Engineering (Book Chapter. Series: Nanotechnologies for Life Sciences, Vol 8. Wiley-VCH)

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  • C Liang, K DeCourcy, MR Prater. High saturated fat diet induces gestational diabetes and placental vasculopathy. Birth Defect Research A, Clinical and Molecular Teratology, 2009

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  • C. Liang, K. DeCourcy, M.R. Prater. High saturated fat diet induces gestational diabetes and placental vasculopathy in C57BL/6 mice. Metabolism 2010 Jul; 59(7): 943-50.

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  • C. Liang, M.E. Oest, J.C. Jones, M.R. Prater. Gestational high saturated fat diet alters C57BL/6 mouse prenatal skeletal formation. Birth Defect Research (Part B) 86:362-369(2009)

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  • C. Liang, M.E. Oest, M.R.Prater. Intrauterine exposure to high saturated fat diet elevates risk of adult-onset chronic diseases in C57BL/6 mice. Birth Defect Research (Part B) 86:377-384(2009)

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  • Chengya Liang, MD, PhD, MBA. Accelerating My Career as a Future Leader with Thermo Fisher Scientific's Graduate Leadership Development Program. Association for Women in Science, Spring 2015 Volume 46

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  • J Lai, B Hart, C Nardi, J Wang, M Kozak, K Natta, X Xie, C Liang, P Arnov, E Hirsch, B Duretz, D Kasper. Streamline post-analytical data analysis of MS for inborn error metabolism research. Newborn Screening and Genetic Testing Symposium 2014

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  • J.Wang, J.Lai, B.Hart, C.De Nardi, M.Kozak, K.Natta, B.Duretz, D.Kasper, C.Liang. The use of a new meta-cal software for automated data processing of Tandem MS for Inborn Error Metabolism research. Mass Spectrometry: Applications to the Clinical Lab, 2014

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  • Prater MR, Liang C. Gestational diet influences neonatal osteogenesis and adult skeletal structure. Birth Defect Research A, Clinical and Molecular Teratology, 2009

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  • Tom B., Dionysios A., Sarah O., Ken F., Shea G., Jonathan A., Sam M., Nick G., Nisha M., Rongsu Q., Chengya L., Tom S., Gary V., Gary A. Human gut antimicrobial resistance: A comparison of microarray, targeted sequencing and deep metagenomics sequencing.

    Sequencing, Finishing, and Analysis in the Future. May, 2016

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Patents

  • A Medical Infusion Pump (Medical Device Invention)

    CN 200610044210.6

  • A Medical Transfusion Control Device (Medical Device Invention)

    CN 02110239.2

Honors & Awards

  • Chinese American Biopharmaceutical Society Executive Council Outstanding Service Award

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  • Featured in Association for Women in Science (AWIS) Magazine

    Association for Women in Science

  • Featured in BusinessBecause Magazine

    BUSINESSBECAUSE

    http://www.businessbecause.com/news/future-of-big-data/3840/why-firms-are-desperate-for-analytics-talent

  • Featured in Cornell Enterprise Magazine

    Cornell University

  • First Place Abstract of NCAC-Society of Toxicology (SOT) Bern Schwartz Travel Award

    National Captial Area Chapter (NCAC)-Society of Toxicology (SOT)

  • Highest Graduate Merit Fellowship Award

    University of Central Florida

  • Honorable Graduate Award

    Shandong University, School of Medicine

  • Invited Keynote Speaker of Women in Technology International (WITI) Summit

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  • MS Thesis Was Awarded a Platform Presentation at the Most Widely Attended Society of Neuroscience Annual National Conference

    Society of Neuroscience

  • Outstanding Performance and Lasting Contribution Award

    Board of Cornell University Johnson Graduate School of Managment Healthcare and Biotech Club

  • Outstanding Student Award

    Shandong University, School of Medicine

  • PhD Dissertation Was Awarded a Platform Presentation at the Largest Society of Toxicology (SOT) Annual National Conference

    Society of Toxicology

  • Second Place Photography Award

    Virginia Tech

  • Society of Teratology Travel Award

    Society of Teratology

  • Thermo Fisher Scientific Community Action Council Certificate of Generous Contribution Appreciation

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  • Third Place of Society of Toxicology (SOT) Annual National Conference Platform Presentation Award

    Society of Toxicology (SOT)

  • Virginia Tech Academia Travel Award

    Virginia Tech Graduate School

Languages

  • English

    Native or bilingual proficiency

  • Chinese

    Native or bilingual proficiency

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