Education and Experience

Director of Research Communications, Arena BioWorks, 2023-present

Visual Designer at Pattern, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, 2019-2022

Owner, O'Reilly Science Art, LLC, 2010-present

Specialized Certificate in Digital Design, University of California, San Diego Extension, 2014

Adjunct Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of San Diego, San Diego, CA  2010-2013

American Cancer Society Postdoctoral Fellow, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA

Ph.D. in Biological Chemistry, MIT, Cambridge, MA

B.S. in Chemistry, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN

Résumé

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If you are interested in how I ended up here you can click here to read about my career path in C&E News, or click here for a more recent essay about it that I wrote for Science.

And here you can see an interview I did with Carmen Drahl of C&E News at an ACS meeting in Boston (August 2018)

My multidisciplinary background in chemistry, biochemistry, and cell biology has given me the tools to independently explore creative solutions for communicating science in these fields. That said, I also know when to just listen. Whether you already have an idea or you are looking for new ways to share your science with others through eye-catching visuals, I am looking forward to working with you. I take a very collaborative approach, keeping you involved from sketches to the final draft to ensure the highest degree of scientific accuracy and your satisfaction. Pricing depends on how long a project takes, so as soon as I have an idea of what you have in mind I will give you an estimate and we will go from there. Just send me an e-mail at oreillyscienceart@gmail.com to get a conversation started. I live and work in the Boston area but work with clients from around the world.

Past and present clients

Biomedical Research Institutes

• The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard

• Janelia Research Campus

• La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology

• National Research Council Canada

• Salk Institute

• Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute

• Stowers Institute for Medical Research

Biotech

• Amplyx Pharmaceuticals

• Aptitude Medical Systems

• aTyr Pharma

• Belharra Therapeutics

• Bicycle Therapeutics

• Cell Guidance Systems, Ltd.

• CTK Biotech

• eFFECTOR Pharmaceuticals

• Keros Therapeutics

• LogicBio Therapeutics

• Merck

• Minerva Biotechnologies

• Parallel Squared Technology Institute

• Polyamyna Nanotech

• Reneo Pharmaceuticals

• Salgomed, Inc.

• Stemcentrx

• Stemgent, Inc.

• Sunflower Therapeutics

• Synthorx

  
  

Publishers

• Chemical & Engineering News

• W.H. Freeman & Company

• Rockefeller University Press (Journal of General Physiology)

• Taylor & Francis Group

Principal Investigators from 

• Baylor College of Medicine

• Boston College

• Brandeis University

• Clemson University

• Duke University

• Emory University Medical School

• ETH Zurich

• Freie Universitat-Berlin

• Harvard Medical School

• Harvard University

• Iowa State University

• Johns Hopkins University

• Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

• Massachusetts Institute of Technology

• McGill University

• National Taiwan University

• Northwestern University

• Oregon Health and Sciences Institute

• Purdue University

• Rice University

• Stanford University

• The Scripps Research Institute

• Tufts Medical Center

• University of Alberta

• University of California-Berkeley

• University of California-San Diego

• University of California-Santa Cruz

• University of Chicago

• University of Colorado-Boulder

• University of Illinois-Chicago

• University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign

• University of Iowa

• University of Massachusetts Medical School

• University of Michigan

• University of San Diego

• University of Southern California

• University of Wisconsin-Madison

• UT-Southwestern

• Wellesley College

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute