Aregitu Mekuriaw Arega
Researcher
Bishoftu,Estern Showa
Summary
I am personally strategic and self-governing and flexible to manage changes & solving problems, plan ahead and anticipate potential barriers and /or risks and developing helpful insights. I am experienced to work under pressure with high level of autonomy at work with patient, resourceful, resilient and flexible and wholehearted team-spirit, in pro-active and results oriented based management on multicultural environment and analytical and produce precise and comprehensible reports and office briefs in line with the requirements, problem-solving abilities stay on track and meet the objectives. I am good in open communication, actively listening and appreciation, offering assistance when needed, and generally fostering a positive and respectful environment with colleagues, team members, other professionals and clients to build and maintaining strong relationships while maintaining strong team spirit to carry a number responsibilities.Professionally I am dedicated, experienced and proficient with a strong academic background and hands-on laboratory disease diagnostic techniques (Microbiological, Molecular Biology, immunological, parasitology) and surveillances; clinical experience and also specialized in vaccine and therapeutic research and development with over fifteen years of work experience in vaccine production, vaccine quality control and assurance as well as vaccine research and development, and project management. I am passionate about public and animal health and committed to providing compassionate care service. For the last two and half years, I am positioned as researcher in research and development directorate Molecular biology laboratory and also the National Veterinary Institute Board member. Formerly I was positioned on senior laboratory technologist and case team leader in National Veterinary Institute Vaccine Quality Control and Assurance Department.
Overview
27
27
years of professional experience
20
20
Certification
Work History
Assistant Researcher, Vaccine Research and Development Directorate, Board representative for the institute employees
National Veterinary Institute
06.2022 - Current
- Company Overview: Postal: 19 ; Telephone No: 251-114-33-84-11/16. Website: https://www.nvi.com.et E-Mail: nvi-rt@ethionet.et
- Prepare annual work plan on laboratory consumables and reagents and other important activities in related to Vaccine research and development as needed
- Provide hand on training on molecular based disease diagnosis techniques for external customers and institute internal staffs.
- Prepare and submit monthly, quarterly, half year and annual performance report
- Perform Molecular level disease diagnostic activities and coordinate different research work activities and maintain laboratory management and team splint.
- Prepare different Laboratory manuals and Standard Operational Procedures for the institute
- Participate on the board monthly, quarterly, half year and annual institute performance evaluation and board audit subcommittee meetings.
- Conducting training workshops and supervising the research activities of master's
- Write different Review and research articles and also edit different research articles drafted by internal staffs as well as scholars on the respected Journals
- Furthermore, as a board representative; I monitor and evaluate the institute monthly, quarterly, and annual performance with other board members
- I highly contribute on the institute continuous improvement by critically evaluating the monthly, quarterly and annual performance evaluation with other board and auditee subcommittee members.
- Develop different National policy and disease surveillance manuals with different scientific and responsible teams on behalf of the Institute. Such as
- National AMR surveillance manual
- International Health Security self-assessment and evaluation
- National One Health Strategic Manual
- Rabies 2030 eradication strategic manual and cost estimation. etc.
- Evaluated staff performance and provided coaching to address inefficiencies.
Researcher Degree Scholar
KIIT University, School of Biotechnology, Bhubaneswar, India
12.2017 - 07.2022
- Company Overview: Postal: 75024; Phone No: +91 674 272 5466; Website: https://biotech.kiit.ac.in; Email: institute@kiitbiotech.
- Actively perform my research degree activities according to the research work plan and report the research status to my immediate supervisor Professor regularly and the Research scholar council or committee (RSC) as needed.
- Assist and follow-up the MSC scholars and Junior PhD scholars
- Coordinate and maintain the laboratory member team-split, resource management, as well as laboratory work environment safety
- I finished my PhD research degree with in four and half years.
- I prepared and published more than 5 peer-reviewed research article in Scopus Indexed Journals
- I am skilled in different genomic, proteomics and bioinformatic disease diagnostic, vaccine and drug design techniques like Molecular Biological techniques like , PCR, qRT-PCR, Molecular cloning, gene expression, blotting, Recombinant Protein overexpression and affinity chromatographic purification etc
Team Leader and Senior Laboratory Technologist
National Veterinary Institute, Bishoftu, Ethiopia
01.2012 - 01.2017
- Company Overview: Postal: 19 ; Telephone No: 251-114-33-84-11/16. Website: https://www.nvi.com.et E-Mail: nvi-rt@ethionet.et
- Prepare annual work plan on laboratory consumables and reagents and other important activities in related to Vaccine quality control and assurance as needed.
- Evaluate and appraise the the QC&A employees work performance two times a year.
- Provide and coordinate different vaccine quality control and assurance test techniques and protocols hand on training : like sterility test, potency, efficacy and safety test on lab and target animals for external customers and institute internal staffs.
- Perform different Viral and bacterial vaccine QC&A tests; like safety test on lab animals and target animals, potency test, viability test efficacy test
- Prepare and submit monthly, quarterly, half year and annual performance report
- Prepare different viral and bacterial vaccine seed;
- Check the quality of vaccine seed; disease
- Coordinate different vaccine QC&A work activities and maintain laboratory management and team splint.
- Prepare different Laboratory manuals and Standard Operational Procedures for the institute
- Participate and contribute on the institute monthly, quarterly, half year and annual institute performance evaluation and internal audit.
- Plan, organize and conduct the institute different department laboratory instruments and equipments annual calibration
- I provide and also guide Ethiopian Drug and food authority more than 15 laboratory personnels with two round.
- I develop more than three new SOP
- Regularly revised and update the developed SOPs
- Conduct the scientific confirmatory test and expose the valid result to the institute Top management and protect the institute 5 batch vaccines, approximately 5.2 million birr loss due to external Vaccine quality control certifying laboratory false contamination positive test result.
- Conduct the poultry disease outbreak investigation and characterization research and identify the circulated virus type as well as virulence diversion
- And able to change the institute existing mild Gumboro vaccine straine to virulent Gumboro vaccine strain which is currently highly protective vaccine
- Contribute on the institute first doseier requirment fulfilling vaccine release.
Senior Laboratory Technologist
Adiss Ababa University, SPANA Project
04.2012 - 08.2012
- Company Overview: Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. P.O. Box: 2003. Tel: +251912844964, www.spana.org.
- Prepare annual work plan on internal laboratory activities, consumables and others as needed
- Prepare and submit monthly, quarterly and annual diagnostic laboratory and field performance report
- Coordinate and also perform all the activities and maintain laboratory management and team splint
- Prepare and maintain different veterinary disease diagnostic standard work procedures.
- Improve the welfare of working animals in vulnerable communities across the nation through three key areas
- Diagnosing the disease cases, treating sick animals, vaccinating apparently healthy animals, provide training the communities and teaching the scholars at university
- Improves the lives of working animals while supporting the communities that depend on them.
- Identify different Equine important internal and external parasitic diseases, and treat animals with proper antiparasitics and antibiotics
- Provide awareness about animal disease zoonotic importance for farmers and livestock producers
- Provide training for Veterinary medicine students about handling of equines, lab animals and different bacteriological, parasitological and haematological laboratory diagnostic tests
- Prepare and maintain different veterinary disease diagnostic standard work procedures.
- Highly contributed and achieved on SPANA Mobile clinics via deliver free care for hundreds of thousands of working animals vital, lifesaving veterinary care to remote and isolated rural communities .
- Vaccinate to prevent disease, treats injuries to relieve pain, and
- Replaces homemade and ill-fitting equipment that cause wounds.
Junior and medium Laboratory Technologist
National Veterinary Institute, Bishoftu, Ethiopia
01.2008 - 01.2012
- Company Overview: Postal: 19 ; Telephone No: 251-114-33-84-11/16. Website: https://www.nvi.com.et E-Mail: nvi-rt@ethionet.et
- Perform different vaccine quality control tests
- Prepare different types of viral and bacterial vaccine seeds and check their quality control tests like; safety test on lab animals and target animals, potency test, viability test efficacy test
- Prepare different vaccine seed and vaccine quality control test inputs and check their quality
- Prepare annual plan on laboratory consumables, reagents, equipment’s and materials
- Prepare monthly, quarterly, and annual reports
- Provide on job training for newly employed assistants and lab technologists
- Prepare and revise different laboratory SOPs and test protocols
- Conduct annual internal audit activities and report for the respected bodies
- I highly contribute and achieve on Top management decisive required activities by timely notify the evidence based results and maintenance the institute work environment stability especially laboratory work force team-split by performing a traceability test where the problem is occurred
Laboratory Technical Assistant I and II
Haramaya University, Veterinary Medicine faculty, Haramaya, Ethiopia
01.2005 - 01.2008
- Company Overview: P.O. Box: 138, Email: cvm@haramaya.edu.et, Phone NO. +251-25 553 03 34
- Technical Assistant the theoretical course work on the department of Microbiology, food hygiene and public health, pathology, parasitology, hematology
- Perform Practical teaching and demonstration on laboratory activity for different courses like; Microbiology, food hygiene and public health, pathology, parasitology, hematology course.
- Perform different clinical practical activities on different field clinical practice site like animal health clinic, abator
- Demonstrate practical different sample collection and assist students how to collect different samples (BLOOD, Fecal, skin scrap, nasal swab,e t c) from different disease suspected livestocks
- I achived my theoretical cource delivery assisting and practically delivered different departments practical laboratory cources and experimental demonstration work (Microbiology, food hygiene and public health, pathology, parasitology, hematology)
- I achived my goal by supporting and performing different graduate candidates for timely completion their research experimental activities and investigation result analysis
Animal Health assistant and Technician
Dangla Woreda Agricultural office Veterinary Clinic
01.1999 - 01.2005
- Company Overview: Dangila Woreda, Agricultural office veterinary clinic, P O Box 2075
- Prepare annual plan and monthly, quarterly and annual reports
- Provide training the community on animal health management
- Diagnose clinical cases
- Provide treatment for sick animals based on diagnosed a disease type with prescribed drug
- Provide vaccination for apparently healthy animals based on vaccination program and as needed
- Community awareness creation about animal health, productivity and zoonotic health
- I optimize the community awarenes about the animal health management, animal proper vaccination advantage, as well as animal and human health safet.
- I create a traciabilty on district veterinary clinic system of documentation
Education
Ph.D. - Biotechnology
Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology (KIIT), School of Biotechnology
01.2022
MSC in the Arts of Science - Project Management
Admas University, School of Postgraduate
01.2024
Degree of Masters (MSC) - tropical Veterinary Microbiology
Addis Ababa University, College of Veterinary medicine and Agriculture
01.2015
B S C Degree - Veterinary Laboratory Technology (VLT)
Addis Ababa University, College of Veterinary medicine and Agriculture
01.2011
Diploma - Animal health
Alage ATVET college
01.2005
Skills
- I am theoretically and practically knowledgeable and expert in :
- Microbiological activities like bacteriology, virology, immunology, molecular biology and Biotechnology which is importantfor disease investication and characterization in the field of animal health as well as the vaccine and drug developent research purposes
- Professionally experienced in vaccine development research, Vaccine production, Vaccine quality control and assurance activities performing, handling and management
- Additionally, I am experienced in programmed/project development, management, implementation and determine and implement key performance indicators (KPIs) to evaluate and monitoring operational performance outcomes and program progress to contribute to the achievement of the long-term strategy, in the development and management of policies and the implementation of disease control strategies
- All these academic background and experiences empowered me on conducting training workshops and supervising the master's student‟s research activities
- Communication skills: excellent verbal and written communication skills both in an office environment and with external stakeholders;
- Experienced at giving presentations to large audiences
- Excellent skill in Teamwork: Laboratory case team leader: Veterinary vaccine quality control and assurance directorate laboratories, National Veterinary institute, Debre Zeit, Ethiopia: 4 years with Creative and systematically Coordination to do things, and active multidirectional view of events; Teaching
- I have Basic computer skills such as (MS-word, MS- excel, data generation, ERP-software, Power point), internet browsing and
- Data analysis (SPSS, STATA, Graph Pad Prism);
Certification
- Training Course for Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory Network Partners on Next Generation and Nanopore Sequencing Applications for the Detection and Characterization of Pathogens, Joint FAO/IAEA Center of Nuclear Techniques in food and Agriculture, Joint FAO/IAEA Center of Nuclear Techniques in food and Agriculture, Austeria, Vena, 2024
- Organizational change Management, Ethiopian Management Institute, Ethiopian Management Institute http://www.emi.gov.et, Ethiopian Management Institute http://www.emi.gov.et E-MAIL: info@emi.gov.et; Phone: +251-116454545, 2024
- Training on ISo/IEC 17025:2017 based on Laboratory Management System, Saby Management Consulting, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 2024
- Training on ISo14001:2015 based on Environmental Management System, Saby Management Consulting, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 2024
- Vaccines for preventing infectious diseases and challenges in COVID- 19 vaccine development, Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology (KIIT). School of Biotechnology, Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology (KIIT). Pattie, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India 751024. kiit@kiit.ac.in, 2020
- Hands on to Computational Biology for Genomic Analysis and Molecular Diagnostic, Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology (KIIT). School of Biotechnology, Bhubaneswar, Pattie, Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology (KIIT). Pattie, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India 751024. kiit@kiit.ac.in, 2019
- Training Course on basic Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP), AU PANVAC, Debre Zeit, Ethiopia, AU-PANVAC. P. O. Box 1746 Telephone: 251 11 433 8001. E-mail: aupanvac@africa-union.org. web site: https://eas-eth.org > pan-African-veterinary-vaccine-cent, 2016
- Regional Training Courses on Diagnosis of Transboundary Animal Disease: Pathogen typing using Molecular techniques, Joint FAO/IAEA Centre of Nuclear Techniques in Food and Agriculture, Vienna International Centre, PO Box 100. A-1400 Vienna, Austria Telephone: +43 (1) 2600-0, Email. @ 1998–2024 IAEA, 2014
- ISO 9001: 2008 Quality Management System and Internal Quality Auditors, Integrated Quality Solution PLC (I-QUAS) Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Email: iquas@ethionet.et website: https://integratedbizsolutions.com, 2011
Working Languages
Arabic: Speaking: , Reading: , Writing
English: Speaking: Excellent, Reading: Excellent, Writing: Excellent
French: Speaking: , Reading: , Writing
Kiswahili: Speaking: , Reading: , Writing
Portuguese: Speaking: , Reading: , Writing
Spanish: Speaking: , Reading: , Writing
References
Gelayag, Ayelet, Vaccine Quality Control Supervisor, gelagayayelet1@gmail.com, +251 911642247, AU-PANVAC
Accomplishments
- I kept the institute from false positive test result unexpected loss by conducting competitive standard investigation;
- I achieved the institute poultry vaccine improvement aim through performing poultry outbreak disease pathogen identifying the circulating pathogen (IBD)and characterizing their virulence level and also compare the immunogenicity of the existing and the new identified highly virulent virus targeted vaccine then select the potent vaccine with the efficient result
- Since I am visionary and ambitious on result oriented problem solving proactive thinking solved different critical
- Best presentation award on National Seminar on overcoming the challenges: Role of Science & Technology on the occasion of 22nd Odisha Bigyan „O‟ Paribesh Congress-2021, Ravenshaw University, Cuttack-753 003, Odisha, India;
Affiliations
- Member of Ethiopian Animal health professionals, Ethiopia
- Member of Ethiopian Laboratory Technologist Association
Work Availability
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Timeline
Assistant Researcher, Vaccine Research and Development Directorate, Board representative for the institute employees
National Veterinary Institute
06.2022 - Current
Researcher Degree Scholar
KIIT University, School of Biotechnology, Bhubaneswar, India
12.2017 - 07.2022
Senior Laboratory Technologist
Adiss Ababa University, SPANA Project
04.2012 - 08.2012
Team Leader and Senior Laboratory Technologist
National Veterinary Institute, Bishoftu, Ethiopia
01.2012 - 01.2017
Junior and medium Laboratory Technologist
National Veterinary Institute, Bishoftu, Ethiopia
01.2008 - 01.2012
Laboratory Technical Assistant I and II
Haramaya University, Veterinary Medicine faculty, Haramaya, Ethiopia
01.2005 - 01.2008
Animal Health assistant and Technician
Dangla Woreda Agricultural office Veterinary Clinic
01.1999 - 01.2005
Ph.D. - Biotechnology
Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology (KIIT), School of Biotechnology
MSC in the Arts of Science - Project Management
Admas University, School of Postgraduate
Degree of Masters (MSC) - tropical Veterinary Microbiology
Addis Ababa University, College of Veterinary medicine and Agriculture
B S C Degree - Veterinary Laboratory Technology (VLT)
Addis Ababa University, College of Veterinary medicine and Agriculture
Diploma - Animal health
Alage ATVET college
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