Xiaokang Li

• Project Leadership: Managed daily laboratory operations for an innovative cancer diagnostic system, ensuring alignment with client and sponsor timelines.
• Stakeholder Coordination: Partnered with senior management and cross-functional teams to optimize workflows, applying structure CAPA principles to improve assay reliability and compliance.
• Resource Management: Led procurement and logistics strategy, reducing costs by 20% while maintaining GMP-relevant documentation and operational efficiency.
• Quality assurance: Collaborated with regulatory, clinical, and technical teams to ensure data traceability and align assay development with business and compliance goals (BSL-1, ISO 13485).
• Team Leadership: Supervised 4 researchers, fostering a culture of efficiency and continuous improvement.

• Research Design: Developed and validated cancer biomarker assays using liquid biopsy and omics technologies; contributed to product stability studies and analytical data interpretation.
• Project Management: Led a CHF 1 M+ Innosuisse-funded translational cancer diagnostic project and secured a 12% funding extension based on scientific and operational milestones.
• Regulatory Support: Authored technical documentation to support regulatory submissions and internal audits.
• Quality assurance: Collaborated with regulatory, clinical, and technical teams to align assay development with compliance goals and supported traceability of raw data and procedures.
• Strategic thinking: Applied structured experimental design principles to guide assay optimization and reduce development timelines.

Activities
• Conceptualized an innovative project for improving the method of tumor antigen discovery
• Established the SOP of HLA-peptide purification on a robotic liquid handling platform
• Assisted teaching activities for master students and organized team-building activities

Achievements
• 1 peer-reviewed publication
• 3 oral presentations at Swiss and European conferences
• Awardee of the 2023 EFIS-EJI Travel Grant for attending an EACR conference
• Awardee of the Best Presentation prize at the 2022 Swiss Proteomics Meeting

MICRO-562 Biomicroscopy II: advanced microscopy techniques, such as confocal and super resolution microscopy

MICRO-561 Biomicroscopy I: main topics are ray optics, Fourier optics, and fluorescence microscopy techniques

Activities
•Established the SOPs for biological studies and two live cell imaging platforms in the laboratory
•Served as the laboratory safety coordinator for two years
•Assisted teaching activities for >300 hours

Achievements
•3 peer-reviewed publications highlighted as cover papers
•7 oral presentations at international conferences
• Awardee of the 2019 Outstanding Ph.D. Thesis Distinction in Biotechnology and Bioengineering
•Awardee of the 2019 Chinese government award for outstanding self-financed students abroad
• Awardee of the 2018 SPIE-MKS Research Excellence award

Activities
• Optimized the preparation of porous biomaterials, such as cryogel, for 3D cell culture.
• Designed a micro-scaffold array device for high-throughput anti-cancer drug screening by 3D cell culture

Achievements
• 3 peer-reviewed journal articles with significant contribution
• 1 conference poster presentation
• 1 patent authorized

Lab Training in mesenchymal stem cell culture, bioreactor culture and tissue engineering