Donna Crabtree

About Donna Crabtree

I am passionate about moving new discoveries forward in the healthcare research pipeline. I am a forever learner who is constantly seeking to add new skills to my toolbox. I am highly skilled in clinical project management (including project management software) and clinical operations, having knowledge of multiple therapeutic areas (genetic engineering, infectious diseases, pathology, neuropathology, oncology, gerontology, and others). I have experience at the site level, small biotech level, and in the CRO world. I can take a project from initiation through closeout and everything in between, including leading all start up activities (protocol/SOP creation, FDA/IRB submissions, site engagement/start up, database/IRT/CTMS set up/initiation, clinicaltrials.gov registration/oversight), vendor management and oversight (clinical labs, assay development/validation), budget negotiation/management, recruitment/retention/monitoring/data collection and analysis, and ultimately, study close out (overseeing monitoring visits, queries, database lock, and all reporting and follow up). I have experience running phase I - IV studies and at managing large interdisciplinary teams (domestic and global). I have expertise in presenting to both expert and non-expert audiences, as well as managing and overseeing funding relationships with various partners, both public and private. I\'ve run projects with budgets as small as a couple hundred thousand dollars and as large as tens of millions of dollars.Years ago in graduate school, a professor asked each of us in what specialty we were pursuing our PhDs. Answers ranged from cell biology, pathology, neuroscience, and others. After a pause, he said we were all obtaining advanced degrees in problem solving. I\'ve never forgotten that because he was right, and I\'ve found that to be my true calling, a life as a professional problem solver.

Experience

1. Associate Project Director

   Allucent

   May 2023 — Present · NC, US

   I work at Allucent as an Associate Project Director. Their portfolio includes a number of areas with which I\'m quite familiar (oncology, rare disease, infectious disease/vaccine, and cell/gene therapy) as well as some opportunities for me to learn new therapeutic areas. Recent mergers and acquisitions provide an ideal environment to identify and fill gaps by creating new processes that harmonize company work flows.

Education

• Murray State University

  Bachelor of Science (BS), Biology and Chemistry with Minor in Spanish

  2002 — 2006

• University of Alabama at Birmingham

  Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Pathology/Neuropathology

  2006 — 2012

Skills

• Networking
• Oncology
• Microsoft Office
• Life Sciences
• Public Lectures
• Statistical Data Analysis
• Animal Welfare
• Immunohistochemistry
• Dna Extraction
• Interdisciplinary Collaboration
• Technical Presentations
• Quantitative Research
• Animal Models
• Science
• Protein Assays
• Scientific Writing
• Data Analysis
• Neuroscience
• Persuasive Presentations
• Mammalian Cell Culture
• University Teaching
• Cell Biology
• Preclinical Studies
• Statistics
• Social Media
• Cell Culture
• Molecular Biology
• Project Management
• Cell Signaling
• Poster Presentations
• Online Research
• Spreadsheets
• Literature Reviews
• Cancer Research