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Calin Yuan

Detailed Description of this session:

HIV/AIDS - the epidemic, how BD products help to monitor disease progression (CD4 counting on flow cytometers) and what the BD PEPFAR partnership is and how it strengthens laboratory systems in Africa (I volunteered for 3 weeks in Uganda last summer with BD PEPFAR and will return to Uganda to volunteer again this summer!)

About Calin Yuan:

2000 – 2003 Worked at Genentech as a research associate in Antibody Engineering Dept, making monoclonal antibodies from hybridoma (hybrid mouse and cancer cells)

2003 – 2008 Worked at BD as a System Specialist, in System Verification, testing the latest developments in software and instrumentation.

2008 – Present Work at BD in Customer Education Services, creating e-learning and traditional training materials on our products for customers to learn about them. Conduct laboratory training for technicians at various research and clinical sites in US and Africa.

Educational Background:

BS in Biomedical Engineering from Columbia University

Immunology course at UC Berkeley Extension

Statistics course at San Jose State University

Instructional Techniques workshop

Course Development workshop