Sukru Kaymakcalan | Director, R&D Information Research
Abbvie

Sukru currently leads the IT organization at AbbVie’s multiple sites in Massachusetts with multiple teams primarily focused on research informatics supporting early R&D and biologics development/CMC.  At Abbott/AbbVie for over 12 years, he started in the Discovery organization focused on data management and bioinformatics supporting biologics and ultimately transitioned to the Information Research R&D IT organization in 2016.  His prior experiences and roles span across the bench and clinical sciences as well as IT, software engineering and data science.  Sukru has a B.A. in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and a M.S. in Bioinformatics, both from Boston University.