Expert Details
Pharmaceutical and Biotechnology Industries: Science, Business, and Technology
ID: 737633
Massachusetts, USA
He has been involved in the development of digital platforms for digitizing data needs for scientific research. He has consulted on emerging technology in the pharmaceutical industry. He has 10+ years of experience and has led large product teams with budgets of more than $10M, with demonstrated skills in identifying new markets, product life cycle management, and product planning.
Education
| Year | Degree | Subject | Institution |
|---|---|---|---|
| Year: 2014 | Degree: Ph.D. | Subject: Bioinformatics/ Biomedical Sciences | Institution: University of Kansas |
| Year: 2014 | Degree: M.S. | Subject: Bioinformatics | Institution: University of Pune |
| Year: 2005 | Degree: B.S. | Subject: Human Biology, major Biophysics | Institution: All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) |
Work History
| Years | Employer | Title | Department |
|---|---|---|---|
| Years: 2019 to Present | Employer: Undisclosed | Title: Senior Principal Scientific Business Analyst | Department: Informatics |
Responsibilities:Advisor built and developed collaborative relationships across multiple therapeutic areas not limited to Oncology, Cardiology, Neurology, and rare diseases. In his role, he also collaborates with the business to understand the needs and direction for the ongoing and future research needs. He has been involved in the development of digital platforms for digitizing data needs for scientific research.Notable Achievements: - Supporting and delivery of structured BA engagements to design innovative business and operating model strategies. - Address and exploit prevailing trends in early drug discovery and leveraging digital technologies and concepts. - Supporting the development of new and enhanced methods, approaches, propositions and points of view to ensure alignment with prevailing trends and the latest thinking. - Working with special interest groups, publication of thought leadership artefacts on relevant and enterprise modelling related topics. - Supporting community initiatives for recruitment, communications, and knowledge sharing and other initiatives. |
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| Years | Employer | Title | Department |
| Years: 2016 to 2019 | Employer: Cognizant Solutions US CORP | Title: Consultant, Life Sciences | Department: Consultant |
Responsibilities:- Lead consultant for an international project worth 2 million dollars. The goal was to manage and coordinate end-to-end whole genome analysis, provide strategic insights and scientific exchanges to the client.- Performed competitive intelligence on market dynamics and disease trend, created a go-to-market service offerings targeting mid-to-small biotech/ pharma companies for implementation of advanced solutions in pre-clinical research. - Provided Subject Matter Expertise (SME) to evaluate new strategies for evolving business requirements and coordinated with company’s sales team for improved service solutions in Research & Development. - Attended national conferences to identify collaborative opportunities with industry and institutions, review scientific programs, attend sessions, and provide a timely written conference report and summarizing of key information, activities, and competitive intelligence to the company. - Scientific liaison for Request for Proposal (RFP)/ Information (RFI) documentations providing scientific expertise to the technical team for the development of business proposals. - Facilitated 1:1 training for newly hired research scientists and consultant to develop their competencies and achieve their maximum level of potential within the practice. |
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| Years | Employer | Title | Department |
| Years: 2016 to 2019 | Employer: Amgen | Title: Client Engagement | Department: Informatics |
Responsibilities:Worked with the client company, served as an integral member of the pre-clinical team responsible for the analysis of key business processes and documents in accordance with the company regulatory requirements, and guidelines. Coordinated with scientists in the preparation of SOPs and overall development of the business. Forged a highly motivated and cohesive organization by displaying exemplary team building and leadership skills.Notable Achievements: - Rendered a high-level of assistance for pre-clinical, clinical and genomics studies for translational research across cardiovascular, inflammation, oncology and hematology therapeutics area. - Facilitated cardiovascular and inflammation driven scientific questions, gathered client requirements, created project roadmaps/presentations, and coordinated between key business leaders and scientists. - Collected, analyzed and reported scientific insights that may impact target development plans, strategies, tactics and user education programs. - Provided support and training for the drug discovery platform to cross-functional teams in business and scientific staffs. - Gathered feedback and insights from Key Business Stakeholders (KBS) to better support the development for an in-house cheminformatics tool and provide overall strategic directions. - Interacted with scientists and business stakeholders to implement custom functions and enhancements, performed gap analysis for the integrated High Throughput Biologics (HTB) workflow management system. - Identified and built opportunities for the improvement of an Animal Study Workflow Suite used in early discovery research by multiple therapeutic areas. |
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| Years | Employer | Title | Department |
| Years: 2014 to 2016 | Employer: 1 Globe Health Institute | Title: Postdoctoral Scientist | Department: Biology |
Responsibilities:Developed proficiency in screening and demonstrated ability to improve the performance of gene silencing products and reduced the synthesis cost. Gained significant results to develop and test a clinically compatible targeted therapy for colon cancer using the optimized aiRNA.Notable Achievements: - Developed in-house pipeline to screen proprietary aiRNA gene silencing technology for immune-oncology targets. - Performed multiple screening for oncology targets like PD-1, PD-L1, TGFβ, P300, NK-cells and EGFR genes for silencing and inhibit disease progression. - Screened aiRNA targeting Hepatitis B Virus (HBV), identified genomic regions which can be targeted for silencing. - Identified novel targets by mining publicly available cancer data from The Cancer Genome Atlas. - Performed statistical analysis on the data sets using R, OriginLab and Excel. |
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| Years | Employer | Title | Department |
| Years: 2006 to 2014 | Employer: University of Kansas | Title: Research Assistant | Department: Bioinformatics |
Responsibilities:Directed and coordinated day-to-day operational aspects of the laboratory in accordance with university established policies and procedures. Conducted training to junior colleagues and summer interns to attain their highest performance level.Notable Achievements: - Received high commendations for completing five research projects related to heme uptake mechanism in Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Yersinia pestis, further gaining insight the role of pathogen in Infectious disease. - Developed methods to purify a previously uncharacterized protein and demonstrated that the pathogen Yersinia pestis secretes a hemophore (HasAyp) with previously unknown structural and functional properties. - Exemplified keen expertise in publishing high tier journal articles –1st author publication in the reputed “ACS Biochemistry” and co-author in “Journal of American Chemical Society (JACS)”. - Designed and developed novel protocols for purifying hemophore protein, achieving outstanding results. - Defense committee highly praised in writing more than 200 pages dissertation including research grants. - Coordinated department conferences and career fairs. - Honored and won research scholarships and travel award. |
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Career Accomplishments
| Awards / Recognition |
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| - Life Sciences Samaritan Award, Cognizant Solutions US Corp, USA - Graduate Student Travel Award, University of Kansas, Kansas, USA - Vice-President, KU Student Organization, USA - Graduate Chair, Graduate/ Postdoc Association, University of Kansas, KS, USA - National Fellowships: Department of Biotechnology (DBT) and Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), India - Prof. G.N. Ramachandran Scholarship for being in top 5 of the masters class, India |
| Publications and Patents Summary |
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| Invited Talks: Biophysical Society Annual Meeting, San Francisco, California, USA (audience count: 1300) Selected Journals: 6 Editorial and Peer Review Activities: 2 |
Additional Experience
| Training / Seminars |
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| Good Clinical Practice (GCP) Training, Amgen, Cambridge, MA 2016 and 2017 |
Language Skills
| Language | Proficiency |
|---|---|
| English | Fluent |