As Senior Director at Biocon Research Limited, Ankur leads a large team of scientists and engineers responsible for Upstream Process Development of Biologics at Biocon Limited. Ankur has 15 years of rich experience in developing and scaling-up of upstream processes using microbial and mammalian...

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...

Dakshesh studied M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Biotechnology from IIT, Powai with specialization in yeast molecular biology and genetics. He is currently the Associate Vice President and Head of Bioprocess Group at Biotech & Genomics division, Wockhardt Research Center, Aurangabad. At Wockhardt, he leads...

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...

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 & 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. 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 19 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...

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...

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...

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...

A microbiologist and a drug hunter who received his PhD at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and post-doctoral training at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, NY. Subsequently gained leadership and management experience over two decades in the pharmaceutical industry. Among various...

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...

Medha Sonavane is the Co-founder and CEO of Oxolotl Biotechnologies Pvt. Ltd. She did her master degree in Medical Biotechnology and worked in Tata Cancer Research Center and IIT Bombay prior to co-founding Oxolotl Biotechnologies.Medha grew up in a small town near Pune and is very fond of...

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...