With over 38 years of experience in Pharmaceuticals & Biological products in India & International markets & over 19 years’ experience at the top management level including four years on the Board of Directors of the Indian subsidiary of world’s 3rd largest pharmaceutical company...

Atin Tomar is President of CPL Biologicals Pvt. Ltd., a joint venture company formed between Cadila Pharmaceuticals Limited, India and Novavax Inc, USA in 2009. CPL Biologicals focuses on research & development, manufacturing and commercialization of Vaccines, Biologics and Diagnostics for...

Ravishankar Kasturi is Asst. Vice President and Head of Biopharmaceuticals Process Development & Manufacturing at Reliance Life Sciences in Navi Mumbai, India. He is responsible for providing guidance and oversight to process development, technology transfer, technical support and manufacturing ...

Dr Subhra Ranjan Chakrabarti has eight years of research experience in academic environment and a concurrent fifteen years’ experience in a leading Biotechnology company. He specialises in vaccine manufacturing, mammalian cell culture based product development and cancer research.He has been...

Dr.G.S.Reddy is the Chief General Manager of Indian Immunologicals Limited, a major veterinary and human vaccines manufacturer in India. He obtained basic degree in Veterinary medicine in 1981 from Andhra Pradesh Agricultural University, Hyderabad. He has 30 years of experience in...

Swapnil Ballal is Senior Director of QA at Biocon Limited and is responsible for the Quality Assurance of Biologics APIs. Swapnil has over 19 years of experience in the biotechnology industry and more than 14 years of that was spent on the Development and manufacturing of biopharmaceuticals. He...

Dr. Sudeep Singh Gadok is the Senior Vice President – Enterprise Development of MSD Wellcome Trust Hilleman Laboratories Pvt. Ltd. Dr. Gadok brings over 16 years of rich experience in Leadership, Strategy, Organizational Development, Management and Operations in the Healthcare and Development...

Sundar Kodiyalam, a co-founder of Vatera Healthcare Partners (VHP), helps manage several aspects of VHP’s investments while sharing his insights and guidance with its portfolio companies and team.  Sundar has nearly 20 years of operating experience in the biotechnology and biopharmaceutical sectors ...

Professor Ashok Pandey, DPhil, FBRS, FNASc, FIOBB, FISEES, FAMI Professor Ashok Pandey is Eminent Scientist at the Center of Innovative and Applied Bioprocessing, Mohali (a national institute under Department of Biotechnology, Ministry of Science and Technology, Government of India) and former...

Dr. Sandhya Kumaraswamy is Associate Director, Biologics Development Centre, Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories Ltd. She holds a PhD in Biochemistry. She has done her Post-doctoral research in Cancer Biology at the H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Centre, Tampa, USA. She moved to India in 2008 and has been with...

Dr Madhavan Nampoothiri is presently working as Principal Scientist & Head, Biotechnology Division of CSIR-NIIST, Trivandrum. Born on 30th May 1969 in Kerala, Madhavan obtained PhD in Microbial Biotechnology from the Cochin University of Science and Technology, Cochin in 1997. He has worked as...

Dr Barbara Paldus is currently CEO/Co-founder of Finesse Solutions, Inc. Barb was most recently the CTO of Picarro, a company she founded in 1998. At Picarro, she was responsible for technology strategy, research, and business development, which led to a solid-state Cyan laser product in 2003 and...

Dr. Manjunath Ramarao received his Ph.D. in Physiology from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA in 1994.  He then joined the Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA as a research fellow and continued there as an Instructor in Neurobiology until 2001.  Later...

Vijay Chandru (PhD, MIT ‘82) is an academic turned entrepreneur. His academic career in data science spanned over two decades as a professor first at Purdue University and then Indian Institute of Science. He is a fellow of the national academies of science and engineering in India and a Technology ...

Supreet is the visionary behind NovaLead - a company focused on technology enabled drug repurposing research. With an international career of over 23 years in various senior strategic positions in large companies like Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd and Bajaj Auto Ltd, Supreet is a business development ...

Mr. Satyen Sanghavi has gained research experience in Stem Cell Technology from the University of Nottingham, UK. He is a young entrepreneur in Biotechnology industry in Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine. Satyen, along with his core team established India’s first GMP certified Cell Processing...

Dr Harish Shandilya is heading Global Product Development and Regulatory Affairs at Enzene Bioscience Ltd, A subsidiary of Alkem Laboratories Ltd. He brings lot of experience working on various aspects of Biosimilars development, practically from “Clone to Clinic”. Earlier, he led the R&D team...

Dr Stefan Hart is Director, New Ventures Singapore/SEA/India at Johnson & Johnson Innovation. In this role he deepens Johnson & Johnson Innovation’s network with innovators and entrepreneurs in the regional life science ecosystem, and sources and establishes collaboration and investment...

Dr. Ajith Kamath is the Head of Strategic Research Partnership-India, External R&D Innovation, Pfizer. He obtained his Ph.D. from IISc, Bangalore and carried out postdoctoral studies at UT-Austin and Stanford University. In 1993, Dr. Kamath joined Pfizer’s R&D in the US and worked there for ...

Dr. Arnab Kapat is currently the Director of Reliance Institute of Life Sciences. It is an autonomous institution for higher education established and funded by Reliance Life Sciences (a Reliance Group company). He worked in vaccine industry in the European Union before joining Reliance Life...

Manohar is the MD & CEO of Stempeutics Research – a leading stem cell research and product development company in India. He earned his B.E. degree in Electronics & Communication from REC Trichy in 1977. Post that he did M.E. in Computer Science from College of Engineering, Guindy. Manohar...

Pazhnaimuthu Annamalai is Founder & Managing Director of AURA Biotechnologies private Limited. Muthu has over 15 years of experience in the pharma and biotechnology industry and more than 10 years he has spent in drug development including small and large molecules (Biologics). He has completed ...

S Dravida is the Founder CEO of Tran-Scell Biologics Pvt. Ltd (www.transcell.in), innovating new vistas in healthcare industry and markets at Hyderabad, India. She is an entrepreneurial technocrat of global standing having worked in the USA, Canada and India in the domains of stem cell research...

Venkat comes with a very rich and global experience of successfully leading organizations in the Life sciences and Consumer Products businesses. He has held top management roles in the life sciences space in companies like Shantha Biotech (A Sanofi Company) and Aurobindo Pharma and he immensely...