DYLAN P.

MARASHI
18400 208th Ave SE Monroe, WA Ÿ [email protected] Ÿ 425 533 7724

EDUCATION

HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL Boston, MA

Master of Bioethics, Magna Cum Laude May 2018
Relevant Coursework: Clinical Ethics, Research Ethics, Health and Human Rights, Methods in Bioethics

SEATTLE PACIFIC UNIVERSITY Seattle, WA

Bachelor of Science, Major: Biochemistry, Cum Laude May 2016
Awards: Ÿ President’s Scholar Award (2013-16)
• Ivy Honorary Mortar Board Nominee (2014)
• Dean’s Scholar List – Honorable Mention, for academic excellence (2013-16)
• Centurions Scholar – Faculty nominated award (2015)
• Person of Promise – Student nominated award (2016)

WORK EXPERIENCE

CLINICAL AND TRANSLATIONAL SCIENCE INSTITUTE AT CHILDREN’S NATIONAL Washington, DC

Program Coordinator Jan. 2019 - Present
Supervisors: Lisa Guay-Woodford, Bendu Walker
• Developing strategies to ensure regulation compliance and responsible for keeping each department informed of applicable
regulations and what needs to be done to ensure the regulations are fully and properly followed.
• Expediting disclosure of trial results to clinical trial participants by offering one-on-one consultation services to principal
investigators and sponsors who need help registering their trial on ClinicalTrials.gov and submitting their summary report.
• Implementing an ethics and regulatory education programing for all CTSI-CN and their community partners to help satisfy
our grant requirement and ensure all research meets the standards outlined in the Belmont Report.
• Helping investigate whether existing urinary mRNA and metabolite profiles, which are diagnostic and prognostic for early
renal allograft injury in adults, can be validated in pediatric kidney transplant recipients.
• Member of the clinical ethics committee which helps advise the hospital faculty and staff on different issues ethical issues
including the allocation of scarce resources, end of life care, consent and assent, and following advanced directives.

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

MULTI-REGIONAL CLINICAL TRIALS CENTER OF BRIGHAM AND WOMEN’S HOSPITAL AND HARVARD Boston, MA
Research Assistant Nov. 2016 – May 2017
Supervisors: Barbara Bierer, Rebecca Li
• Collaborated with expert stakeholders to improve the clinical research enterprise and tackle emerging ethical issues in the
global clinical trials context such as expanded access and social inequity.
• Co-chaired the genomics subgroup of the MRCT Individual Return of Results project and helped to develop a
recommendations appendix and physician toolkit for the project.

SEATTLE PACIFIC UNIVERSITY Seattle, WA

Research Assistant Mar. 2014 – May 2016
Supervisors: Wade Grabow, Derek Wood
• Developed the mutants for two bifurcated strands of DFHBI (Spinach 2) aptamer that were to be used in a fluorescent system
of self-assembling RNA nanorings.
• Discovered and characterized long-range tertiary interaction in the THF Riboswitch to be used as a new construction method
for building nanoparticles.
• Investigated functional significance of five proC genes found in Agrobacterium radiobacter K84 via functional
complementation and comparative analysis.
• Performed cell transformations, cell colony counterselection, gDNA primer design, aseptic cell culture technique, native and
non-native acrylamide gel-electrophoresis, gel-imaging analysis, and RNA sequence design.

LEADERSHIP EXPERIENCE

HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL BIOETHICS JOURNAL Boston, MA

Editor Aug. 2017 – Present
Supervisors: Christine Mitchell, Rebecca Weintraub Brendel
• Conceived and developed ideas for research and coverage in different areas of bioethics and conducted extensive background
reading, careful fact-checking and revision, and in-depth interviewing.
• Oversaw manuscripts through production, managed assignments, and worked closely with communications coordinator to
identify and acquire suitable visual materials for every article.
 DYLAN P. MARASHI
18400 208th Ave SE Monroe, WA Ÿ [email protected] Ÿ 425 533 7724

CHRISTIAN MEDICAL AND DENTAL ASSOCIATION Boston, MA

Lead Sept. 2016 – May 2018
Supervisor: Nathan Nakatsuka
• Led small group discussions (~30 people) for healthcare professionals and students from the Harvard Medical School,
Harvard Public Health School, and broader Longwood medical community on topics related to religion and medicine.
• Arranged inter-disciplinary and inter-faith events for healthcare professionals and students on topics like justice, racial
reconciliation, holy text comparison, and more.

THE VERITAS FORUM Boston, MA

Lead Sept. 2016 – May 2018
Supervisor: Nathan Nakatsuka
• Responsible for developing topics and interview questions for three VERITAS Forum events including events on physician
assisted suicide, artificial intelligence, and religion in medicine.
• Helped manage on-site meeting logistics including registration check in, coordination of food and beverage, audio and visual,
and transportation and lodging of guest speakers, and also helped create post-event surveys.

ATLANTIS Washington, DC
Lecturer May 2017 – Sept. 2017
Supervisor: Daniel Lage
• Prepared and delivered lectures to undergraduate students on topics in biomedical ethics such as physician-patient
confidentiality, natural disaster or triage medicine, pediatric end of life care, and assisted reproduction.
• Delivered personalized roadmaps to students applying to different graduate programs in healthcare and the health sciences.
• Updated the ATLANTIS handbook with information on the medical school interview process and helpful tips for the
multiple mini-interview sessions.

VOLUNTEER

MISSION HILL LITTLE LEAGUE Boston, MA

Assistant Coach Apr. 2017 – May 2018
Supervisor: Suzanna Hauck
• Coached fifteen boys and girls the core fundamentals of baseball and the value of sportsmanship over two seasons.
• Created a positive environment for children from disenfranchised backgrounds and helped overcome certain material
obstacles by providing equipment to each player and also helping with transportation on a case-by-case basis.

METROPOLITAN SICKLE CELL TASK FORCE Seattle, WA

Event Volunteer Mar. 2014 – Sept. 2016
Supervisors: Foxy Williams, Max Hunter
• Deployed university resources to raise awareness about sickle cell anemia through a lecture and conversation series with a
sickle cell patient and their parents.
• Collaborated with on-campus task force members to develop support strategies for the sickle cell community and partnered
with students in the social sciences to investigate health disparities at a historically-black clinic.
• Helped facilitate the annual Walk, Bike, Run for Sickle Cell, which helps raise funds for advocacy projects, scholarships, and
internships for sickle cell patients.

NICK OF TIME FOUNDATION Seattle, WA

Event Volunteer Sept. 2012 – Sept. 2014
Supervisors: David Watkins, Darla Varrenti, Suzanne Apodaca
• Helped screen over ten thousand high school teenagers during five events held throughout the greater Seattle by collecting
background health and history, operating the electrocardiogram, and helping the sonographer with the echocardiograms.
• Spearheaded effort to bring the Nick of Time Foundation to Monroe High School (my high school) to conduct a youth heart
screening by enlisting support of high school faculty and local leadership where two students were found to have an
undiagnosed heart condition.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS AND WORKING PAPERS

• The Multi-Regional Clinical Trials Center of Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard. “Return of Individual Results to
Participants Recommendations Document.” Online. December 2017.
• Max Hunter, Dylan Marashi. “Gene editing, race, and the social contract.” Christian Century. 14 June 2016.
• Jack O’Hara, Dylan Marashi, Sean Morton, Luc Jaeger, Wade Grabow. “Optimization of the split-Spinach aptamer for
monitoring nanoparticle assembly involving multiple contiguous RNAs.” Nanomaterials. Approved, waiting publication.
• Derek Wood, Kate Houmiel, Dylan Marashi, et al.“Investigation of gene duplicated proC genes in Agrobacterium
Radiobacter K84 by functional complementation.” Data collection in process.
 DYLAN P. MARASHI
18400 208th Ave SE Monroe, WA Ÿ [email protected] Ÿ 425 533 7724

SKILLS AND INTERESTS

Skills: Microsoft Office, FinchTV, OligoAnalyzer

Interests: Crop farming, Russian literature, coaching little league baseball