Bindu Ajit is the Program Director of Biocon Academy and is responsible for all the programs offered by the academy. She is a post-graduate in Analytical Chemistry and also has a degree in Education. Her total experience is of around 18 years, which includes over 14 years of leadership and...

Anita Krishnan presently heads the Bioanalytical team at Lupin limited in Pune. In her present role she leads a team that is responsible for physicochemical and functional characterization of biosimilars. She is a key contributor towards the CMC of regulatory submissions to PMDA, EMA, US-FDA, TGA...

Mr. Mayur Parmar is working as Drugs Inspector in Food and Drugs Control Administration, Ministry of health and family welfare, Govt. Of Gujarat. He is carrying five years of rich experience and during his tenure he has inspected various Drug manufacturing sites, drugs Distribution...

Taslimarif Saiyed is the Director and COO of C-CAMP, Centre for Cellular and Molecular Platforms. In this role, he manages C-CAMP's technology platforms, growth strategies, strategic collaborations for new technology creation, education and training programmes, business and innovation...

Backed by 35+ years of rich, rewarding, impactful and diverse experience in managing products, people and overall businesses, Yugal has managed a wide variety of roles and fields encompassing Marketing and Sales on one hand and R&D/Manufacturing and General Management on the other overseeing...

Working with Alkem Laboratories Ltd as Vice President – Medical Affairs, Clinical Research & Regulatory. After completion of MD in clinical pharmacology worked as Asst Professor in Lady Harding Medical College New Delhi for about 5 years. Worked in various Indian and Multinational...

Atin Tomar is President & CEO 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...

Dr. K. Bangarurajan did his Degree in Pharmacy from Madras Medical College and M. Pharmacy from Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi in the Year 1984 and was awarded Ph.D. by Tamil Nadu Dr. MGR Medical University in the Year 2000. He began his career as a lecturer at J.S.S. College of...

Dr. Manoj Kumar, (Ph.D., Bacteriology) is working as Director, R&D heading the conjugate vaccine research at MSD Wellcome Trust Hilleman Laboratories in New Delhi. In his 15 years of research career, he has worked on different stages of development of several vaccine candidates, biosimilar...

Dr. Bobby George is Vice President & Head of Regulatory Affairs at Reliance Life Sciences, Mumbai. He holds a Masters and Ph.D. in Pharmacology from Panjab University, Chandigarh and has over 20 years of industrial experience. At Reliance, he has been for over 14 years and is responsible for...

Dr. Mithua Ghosh is the Director of Research and Development of Triesta Sciences, Health Care Global (India). An accomplished cancer biologist  with over 20+ years of academic and corporate experience and expertise in fields of cancer biology, molecular pathology and...

An Indian innovator, best described as a scientist, entrepreneur and motivator, Nusrat is committed to make a difference in people's life by her scientific and personal endeavors. She started her research journey with a mission 'to find a better anticancer drug with fewer side...

An entrepreneur with a proven record of founding and managing life sciences-oriented ventures from an Idea into advanced clinical trials and commercialization. Inventor of several potential novel molecular entities in various therapeutic areas including Diabetes, Colitis, Liver...

Always challenging herself to move out of her comfort zone, Caroline constantly re-invents her role - evolving from an academician to a researcher, and currently as a pioneer in Stem Cell Research. Her core focus and interest lies in the use of adult stem cells as a tool for therapeutics. She has...

Sooraj completed his PhD in Biotechnology from the University of Cambridge, and went on to do postdoctoral research at labs in the University of Washington, Seattle, EPFL Switzerland, and Cambridge. He is a well-recognized molecular expert and is regularly invited to speak at medical...

Dr. S.D. Ravetkar is an Executive Director with Serum Institute of India Ltd. Apart from his Doctorate he holds degrees in Management and Finance. He has authored various research articles in national and international journals. He is also on advisory board of various national and international...

Sonika Shah is heading Regulatory Affairs function in Amgen India. Prior to joining Amgen, Sonika worked for various organizations including Sanofi, Bristol-Myers Squibb, UCB & Bayer is & has a robust experience of more than 13 years managing regulatory affairs for biological and new...

Abhinav has over 15 years of experience in process development in biopharmaceuticals covering early development through commercial launch. He has led process development activities at both small biopharmaceutical and large pharmaceutical organizations and was most recently the...

Dhaval graduated from University of Pune, India with B.E. in Chemical engineering in 1997. He joined University of Louisville in 1998 and completed his M.S. in Chemical engineering in 2000. His research thesis was increasing single cell protein from distillery waste. He has over 18+ years of...

Jawed Zia is Country President, Novartis India responsible for the Novartis Group of Companies in the country and leads the Pharmaceuticals business as well. Mr. Zia has a wealth of experience gained in various geographies and functions across the globe. Having joined Novartis in 1987, he has a...

Sanghamitra Bhattacharjee is working as a Senior Scientist (Cell biology) at Zumutor Biologics, India. She is associated with establishment of novel technology platforms to create next generation glyco-engineered monoclonal antibodies. She has over 11 years of industrial expertise. Her resume...

Chandra Sekhar is currently Vice President-Quality-Pharma at Reliance Life Sciences based in Navi Mumbai. Prior to that, he was looking after the Data Integrity function at Ranbaxy. He is a Certified Quality Auditor from American Society for Quality (ASQ). He has Pharma QC, QA, Compliance...

Dr Ted Fjallman is CEO of Prokarium, a UK vaccine company focusing on oral vaccines against infectious diseases. He has a background in clinical research from Sahlgrenska University Hospital and in strategy consulting at Sweden’s Royal Academy of Engineering Sciences, where he coordinated Sweden’s...

Dr. Milind Choudhari is currently Founder and CEO of WeInnovate Biosolutions Pvt. Ltd. a startup incubated at NCL Innovation park, Pune. He has previously worked with Serum Institute of India, Pune Ranbaxy Labs Ltd., Mumbai, Reametrix Pvt. Ltd., Bangalore and Thomas Baker Pvt. Ltd, Mumbai. He has...

Vikas Dandekar is a seasoned journalist who has been tracking the Indian healthcare and pharmaceutical sector for over twenty years His domain of news coverage includes corporate developments, policy issues, medicine access programs, patent litigation, drug discovery and innovation. Vikas has...

Dr. Hemant Dhamne received his PhD degree from the ACTREC, Mumbai. He worked in Virology lab on lentiviral vectors and its therapeutic applications. Then he joined as Post Doctoral fellow in the Genomic lab in the same institute. Currently working as Senior Research Scientist in Intas...

Dr Paul Howley has experience and expertise in vaccine design and development of vaccines from concept to clinical trials. Scientific background has been in the field of molecular virology, specialising in viral vectors systems and vaccinology. Inventor of the company's SCV platform vaccine...

Dr. Sanjay Singh serves as the Chief Executive Officer of Gennova Biopharmaceuticals Ltd. Dr. Singh was working with National Institute of Health, USA. Dr. Singh has been associated at Gennova since October 2006. He is a graduate in Science from the Lucknow University and a post graduate degree in...

Dr Shubhadeep Sinha is a senior pharmaceutical physician with over 17 years of experience in Global Clinical Development, Pharmacovigilance, Medical Affairs in Pharmaceuticals &  CROs. He is Currently Vice-President and Head- global clinical, medical and pharmacovigilance operations at Hetero...

Dr Renu Swarup is presently Sr. Adviser for Department of Biotechnology (DBT). She also holds position of Managing Director, Biotechnology Industry Research Assistance Council (BIRAC), a Public Sector Company incorporated by the Government to nurture and promote innovation research in the Biotech...

Dr. Annu Uppal is a scientific professional with strong expertise in the development and implementation of LC-MS based applications for the qualitative and quantitative analysis of protein/peptide based therapeutics. She has been working with  SCIEX since Jan 2009 and is currently Global Demo Lead...

Mr. Kumar Gaurav is the Assistant General Manager of Panacea Biotec. He has a rich experience of more than 13 years in early stage Process Development and its Scale-up, Technology Transfer, Manufacturing Operations as well as Licensing and Commercialization of Vaccines and Biosimilars. He is an...

Dr. Goel is a passionate vaccinologist, and has been involved with process development, clinical and commercial manufacturing, and quality interface for commercialization of several vaccine candidates in both US and India over the past 22 years. Dr. Goel is passionate about rapid development and...

Dipak Thakur studies Chemistry/Physical Chemistry at University of Mumbai and received his Ph.D. in Analytical Chemistry from Northeastern University, Boston, USA. Title of his research work during Ph.D. program was development of sensitive and comprehensive mass spectrometry based characterization ...

Almost 10 years of Experience in Quality Control & Regulations of Biologicals (Viral Vaccines & Therapeutic Monoclonal Antibodies) and Pharmaceuticals. Worked previously in Torrent Pharmaceuticals Ltd. Baddi, H.P. from 2008 to 2010. Joined NIB in March 2010 and presently working as...

Dr. Rahul S. Fadnis, PhD, is a biotech professional with over 13 years of industry experience in the areas of Viral Safety, Clearance and Vaccine Development. He heads the Viral Testing Facility at Syngene International Limited that offers the Viral Clearance and Safety studies to Indian and Global ...

Janani has been a part of the Upstream Biologics divisions (mAbs) of Biocon for over 9 years and has immense experience in developing and scaling-up upstream processes in the novel and Biosimilar space. Janani with her immense scientific and technical expertise leads a team of scientists and...

Dr. Pawan K. Singh is currently working as Clinical  Science Lead (Senior Manager) with Sun Pharma Advanced Research Company (SPARC), based at Vadodara  where he is the Clinical Lead for respiratory and Bio similar  drug development.Pawan was earlier working with SIRO Clinpharm and heading its...

Gopal Rao is part of the Global BD and Licensing team at Lupin Biotech based out of the Biotech Division of Lupin at Pune, India, responsible for product evaluation, commercial launch strategy, Evaluating and finalizing B2B licensing partners in Japan and Emerging markets along with liaising with...

Having worked on almost every technology in the field of bioprocessing for more than 7 years, the Promoter has invented Dynamic Bed Reactor technology, with an aim to achieve greater heights in the field of bioprocessing. The core team of the business is highly skilled and experienced in the fields ...

Radhika has over 10 years of experience, predominantly in the pharmaceutical industry. With an economics under-graduate degree and a masters in business administration, she has predominantly been on the commercial side of business across various roles such as business development, market...

Solomon leads the Antibody Purification Laboratory at Biocon Limited. He has over 10 years of experience in Novel and Biosimilar Biologics development. He is a subject matter expert in bioseparation technologies, and has extensive experience in the life-cycle management of product development -...

Rodrigo joined ProMéxico, India in September 2010 as Head of Operations. Later he assumed the post of Director of ProMéxico for India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Maldives & Nepal as well as Principal Trade & Investment Officer from the Embassy of Mexico. He currently works as in-charge of...

Arani Chatterjee, MBBS, MPhil, PGCPM completed his graduation from CMC, Vellore and post-graduation from NIMHANS, Bangalore. He has a Post Graduate Certificate in Management from IIM, Indore. Before joining Aurobindo Pharma, he was Senior Vice President, Clinical Research at Biological E, Hyderabad ...

Mehul is a Qualified Person registered in the UK under the permanent provision of 2001 83 EC. Mehul is a Principal GMP Consultant and CAI-India Business Senior Manager for the Commissioning Agents Inc[CAI]. Mehul has managed new pharmaceutical site Commissioning and Qualification projects for the...

Ms. Lakshmi Achuta is a Quality Assurance professional with over two decades of experience in the Biotechnology, Biopharmaceutical, Clinical Research Organization (CRO), Contract Research and Manufacturing Services (CRAMS) industries having initiated her career at Biocon in 1993 and subsequently...

Dr. Lalit Raute is a qualified professional with an analytical bent of mind with Master of Public Health from BITS PILANI and Post Graduate in Advance Project Management-Honors from SP Jain, Mumbai. Currently working as a “Program Lead – Market Access” in the Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of...

Dr. Pradip Sinha received his Ph. D. from Banaras Hindu University in 1983. He joined IIT Kanpur in June, 2001 to found the Department of Biological Sciences and Bioengineering (BSBE), which was formally established on 13th September 2001; he served as its Head for the period 2001-2010.  Prior to...

Supriya Kashikar, Co-founder and COO of Genext Genomics, has graduated from Delhi University in Microbiology and earned Post graduation in Biochemical Technology. She brings with her more than 12 years of academia and Industrial Experience .  She worked on various international project of Drug...

Arun Chandru is a co-founder of Pandorum Technologies, a Bangalore based startup working in the field of tissue engineering. Pandorum designs and manufactures functional 3D human tissues intended for medical research and therapeutic applications. The company, supported by BIRAC and located at CCAMP ...

Dr. Dinesh Kundu is an alumnus of AFMC, ISB and London Business School. He served the Indian Army as a doctor for 7 years. Post that he has been working across Biotech Strategy, BD and program management. Currently, he is heading the Business Strategy and Program Management Function at Intas...

I have been responsible in setting up the lab at Bugworks and lead a team that focuses on identifying and characterizing targets of novel anti-bacterial agents. I lead the group for a various of biological assays that employs biochemical and microbiological techniques such as protein...

Jun Seok who has over 10 years experience in this industry has provided techincal support as a technical manager in APAC region for Single use technology and purification business of Thermo Fisher Scientific for last 2 years. Before current role, he was a Field application scientist to support...

Sarthak Vasudeva is working with Indian Immunologicals Limited (IIL) as VP and Head of International Business. Indian Immunologicals Limited is a subsidiary of National Dairy Development Board (NDDB) and focuses on vaccine Research & Development, Manufacturing and Sales &...