Resmi Menon

Learning Design and Teaching

• Develop and deliver lectures, tutorials, and practical sessions for Biomedical Science courses, including Anatomy and Physiology, Cell and Molecular Biology, and Biochemistry.
• Integrated research-informed teaching methodologies and innovative assessment strategies foster an inclusive environment for active student participation, critical thinking, and providing constructive feedback to support academic progression.
• Engage in ongoing professional development and scholarly activities to enhance teaching and clinical skills.
• Implement fair and transparent assessment practices, and evaluate the effectiveness of assessments in gauging student understanding and performance.
• Maintain 95% of active participation and engagement of students from diverse backgrounds.

Academic Administration

• Managed academic compliance, assessment moderation, and student progression processes in line with institutional policies and AQF standards.
• Assisted in maintaining course accreditation documentation and quality assurance activities.
• Facilitate IHM's administrative and academic operations by staying informed about various aspects, such as risk management, compliance, governance, course quality, and actively maintaining industry partnerships and currency to facilitate IHM’s academic function.

• Designing and executing preclinical experiments, functional assays for mRNA drug screening, and validation studies in iPSC organoids (3D and 2D) employing molecular biological techniques, accelerating the path to clinical trials.
• Coordinated with cross-functional teams to produce quality reports, verify data accuracy within organizational systems, and actively engage in compliance initiatives to uphold ethics and biosafety regulations.
• Successfully designed and completed critical therapeutic research projects by high throughput data pack generation and workflow streamlining well in advance of timeline expectations for FDA submission and internal/ external auditing.
• Refined and optimised current lab protocols compliant with OGTR/ GLP/ GMP standards, wrote study proposals and SOPs on protocols developed and standardised ensuring stringent regulatory adherence.
• Served as the primary point of contact for technical support and troubleshooting microscopy, transfection assays and instruments.
• Writing for publications and project presentations, literature reviewing and presenting program updates to stakeholders and potential partners.

• The PhD project focused on 'Elucidating the intracellular trafficking mechanisms of GPCR-Neuropeptide complexes in astrocytes and their further fate when complexed with Metallo-complexes.
• Designed experiments with rigorous controls to maximize the validity of findings that led to the publishing of 3 peer-reviewed articles in top-tier neuroscience and molecular biology journals.

• Liaising with academic and technical staff, setting up teaching spaces and providing technical support for laboratory sessions as required by the teaching academics.
• Working with biologically hazardous materials, knowledge of and the ability to comply with protocols and procedures set by the Office of Gene Technology Regulator (OGTR).

• High-level tertiary teaching (Undergraduate Biomedical students), including the ability to facilitate interdisciplinary learning in small and large groups.
• Assisted in the creation of educational tools, guides, and educational content that supported biomedical education and enhanced their medical practicing skills.
• Helped facilitate educational events, seminars, and webinars by providing training support and preparing handouts and resources.
• Engaging several integrative technological tools to enhance student engagement and learning via online and blended learning platform.
• Extensive involvement in team teaching, lecturing and demonstrating laboratory sessions and workshops.
• Mentor and supervise research students in research projects and method development.