Amitabh Gaur, Ph.D. Email & Phone Number

Greater San Diego Area

Providing consulting and scientific advice in the area of design and development of a) biological therapeutics b) cell based therapies including Immunotherapies like CAR-T cells c) vaccines to emerging diseases e.g., dengue, chikungunya d) novel immuno assays for various indications like transplantation, infectious diseases, autoimmunity, cancer etc..

San Diego, California, United States

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Greater San Diego Area

Consultant for a Vaccine development company establishing a GCP (Good Clinical Practices ) laboratory. Successfully established the lab to carry out clinical assays and enabled delivery of results on thousands of samples from over 400 subjects in a Phase II clinical trial of a candidate vaccine for Chikungunya virus.

San Diego

Greater San Diego Area

• Director, Custom Technology Business Unit (CTT)Recruited to be the Business and Scientific leader of the new Custom Technology Business developing novel assay solutions for a broad range of Biomedical Applications..
• Grew the CTT Business by double digits year over year achieving budgeted yearly top line revenue targets while… Show more Director, Custom Technology Business Unit (CTT)Recruited to be the Business and Scientific.
• Grew the CTT Business by double digits year over year achieving budgeted yearly top line revenue targets while delivering high profit margins.
• Expanded the range of Assay Solutions broadening the custom product portfolio into the following fields – Leukemia and Lymphoma diagnosis; Vaccine efficacy monitoring, Autoimmune therapeutics, Cell Therapy, Biological.
• Successfully promoted the CTT Business globally – Europe, Japan, Australia, Canada, Latin America.
• Established the complete infrastructure and processes at BD to carry out assays for clinical trials including assay development, assay validation, sample tracking and receipt systems to receive samples from clinical.

Greater San Diego Area

• A Biotech founded in 1994 with the aim of developing novel therapeutics for neurological and autoimmune disorders based upon pioneering research carried out at the Salk Institute and Stanford University.Joined the.
• Established in-house animal model for diabetes and directed and conducted immunological and pharmacological research leading to selection of drug candidate.
• Managed and conducted ex vivo studies on biological samples from diabetic patients.
• Investigated and established the mechanisms of action of the Altered Peptide Ligands (APL) employing in vitro and in vivo methods of analysis.
• Established methods and strategies for developing surrogate markers for evaluation of the efficacy of the drug in clinical trials.Multiple Sclerosis (MS) ProgramEstablished a research program for development of a.
• Developed the appropriate APL for evaluation in clinical trials - in the process firmly establishing the APL technology platform for the Company

Greater San Diego Area

• Scientific Advisory Board meetings for the NIH-NIAID Sponsored EQAPOL Program on behalf of the BD –Duke University alliance – 2013-2016 at Duke University
• Member – Faculty of the Immunology Course in India supported by the Cancer Institute in New York, 2008 - Kochi, India
• Invited to attend the Indo – US Symposium on Genetic Disorders, Varanasi, India, October 2006
• Member – Faculty of the Immunology Course in India supported by the Cancer Institute in New York… Show more
• Member – Faculty of the Immunology Course in India supported by the Cancer Institute in New York, 2006
• Co-Chairman of the symposium on Regulatory T Cells in Disease States at the XII International Congress of Immunology/FOCIS Conference, Montreal, Canada, July, 2004

New Delhi Area, India

Major new institution, the first of its kind in India, focused on the development of vaccines.Designed and directed the preparation of a new vaccine for controlling fertility under GMP conditions for use in Phase I clinical trials.Developed novel strategies for overcoming epitope specific immune suppression in hapten-carrier conjugated candidate vaccines.

Post Doctoral Fellow, Immunology / Autoimmunity / Medicine

Activities and Societies: Post Doctoral Fellow Stanford University Medical Center, Department of Medicine Life Sciences Research.

Ph.D., Biochemistry/Immunology