Shawn Morales
Program Leadership | Team Building | CRO Management | Clinical Trials | Global Cross-Functional Team Management
- Role
- Associate Director, Research and Development at Skye Bioscience Inc.
- Location
- San Diego, CA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Shawn Morales
A persistent goal-getter and project leader, creating value through constant and never-ending improvement. Extensive industry experience managing internal and external teams, creating significant impact by advancing preclinical projects through IND submission. Demonstrated ability to develop novel models and molecules for the treatment of disease. Expertise in autoimmune and metabolic diseases. Extensive research in the fields of cell biology, molecular biology, and biochemistry. AREAS OF EXPERTISEProgram Leadership | People Management | Team Building | CRO Management | CDMO Selection and Management | Relationship Building with KOLs | IND Enabling Toxicology and DMPK Studies | Business Development | Autoimmune Disease | Metabolic Disease | Obesity | Renal Biology | Kidney Disease | Liver Disease | NASH | Pulmonary Fibrosis | Ocular Disease | Biomarker Identification | siRNA Drug Delivery| Translational Studies | Human Dose Modeling | Design Thinking | Protocol Development | Target Engagement and Biodistribution | Mouse and Nonhuman Primate Study Design and Execution |
Experience
Associate Director, Research and Development
Jul 2025 — Present · San Diego, CA, US
Education
UC San Diego
Bachelor of Science - BS, Microbiology and Immunology
UCLA
PhD, Cellular and Molecular Pathology
Certara University
Certification as an NCA Analyst using Phoenix WinNonlin version 8.4
Skills
- Cross-Functional Team Leadership
- Pharmacology
- Cell Culture
- Tissue Culture
- Clinical Research
- CRO Management
- Fibrosis
- Immunology
- Assay Development
- Signal Transduction
- High-Performance Liquid Chromatography (Hplc)
- Molecular Cloning
- Validation
- Biochemistry
- Pharmaceutical Industry
- Life Sciences
- Immunohistochemistry
- Training
- Qpcr
- Elisa
- Oncology
- Immunofluorescence
- Biologics
- Pcr
- Drug Development
- Flow Cytometry
- Functional Cellular Screening
- Drug Discovery
- Molecular Biology
- Data Analysis
- Research
- Confocal Microscopy
- Western Blotting
- Cell Biology
- In Vitro
- Cell
- Biotechnology
- In Vivo
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