Prabuddha Kumar Kundu | Co-founder and MD
Premas Biotech

Dr Prabuddha Kundu has a M.Tech, PhD in Biomedical Engineering from IIT Bombay, and specialized in protein therapeutics and scale up including MAbs. He has over 25 years of experience in various companies, and positions, including establishment of production facilities, for therapeutics and biologicals, vaccines and blood derived products. In his most recent role, as an entrepreneur, he has co-founded Premas Biotech 19 years ago, along with other cofounders. Premas has become one of the top protein research and manufacturing companies in India and globally. He also cofounded Premas Technologies Inc along with other cofounders to promote rapid response to the pandemic preparedness. Apart from his other business interests, he is most interested in process efficiency enhancement and has been very actively involved and implemented "Lean Management" at Premas Biotech, or the "Toyota production Process" one of the first company in India for the biology sector, along with electronic information acquisition and documentation. This provides entire bandwidth of traceability, information management and process deliveries. He has over 22 publications in international journals, 8 US patents pending, and 4 patent applications