Matthew G. Solomon, PH.D.

A. Program Analyst For Naval Advanced Medical Development Projects

• Managing multi-million dollar funding award with industrial partners
• Milestone tracking, review/edit reports, manage invoices and finances for accuracy.
• Facilitate meetings with sponsors, vendors and stakeholders.
• Conduct site visits to over see projects and provide critical technical expertise to ensure integrity of research.
• Advise, simplify and effectively communicate research to senior leaders.

B. Grant Portfolio Manager Naval Medical Research Command

• Manage and monitor preclinical basic science research portfolios.
• Provide programmatic guidance to junior investigator on research proposals that ensure funding for work.
• Develop and maintain multiple research programs
• Create Program Announcements, review research proposals, perform program reviews with recruited subject matter experts.

C. Programmatic and Administration for Bio Medical Programs

• Conduct and assist with scientific and administrative reviews of research portfolios.
• Maintain deadlines of study progress to ensure delivery of high-quality and relevant data for our sponsors.
• Co-managing Navy-wide STEM initiative
• Enhance investigator participation, recruit students and conduct research training to improve the next generation of Navy researchers.
• Produce, review, and edit biomedical material for high level documents ( i.e Surgeon General report, Congressional reports, and briefings with senior leaders.

• Leveraged interpersonal and communication skills to mentor PhD, graduate and undergraduate students.
• Liaised with supervisor to review grants and manuscripts to develop potential publications , receive grant funding, and win travel awards.
• Conducted lectures
• Designed and executed 5 independent scientific research projects
• Lead experiments funded by R01 from the National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism.

• Managed multiple research projects simultaneously, ensuring timely completion and adherence to high-quality standards.
• Prepared and presented research for conferences and seminars of all levels.
• Trained and managed graduate rotation students, and undergraduate research assistants and technicians.