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San Carlos, California, United States

• Co-led a project with a novel therapeutic plasma fraction, initiating and executing new ideas along with highly cross functional collaboration across teams; leading to a patent • In vitro lead for developing clinically relevant screening models from patient derived cells• Hands on experience in developing program advancement timelines including making decision trees with clear Go/ No Go milestones, writing proposals and reports, and providing key scientific and strategic input • Poster presentation at a Gordon Research Conference• Validated targets by establishing various high throughput functional screening assays• Regularly presented findings internally at various cross functional and company wide meetings

San Carlos, California, United States

• Established a protocol to isolate and differentiate primary myoblasts from young and old animals• Established 96 well screening assays for primary and immortalized muscle cells• iPSC culture and maintenance• Established 96 well functional cellular assays with differentiated iPSCs• Established 96 well screening assays with primary endothelial cells using flow cytometry up to 5 colors

San Carlos, California

• Established 96 well screening assays with primary and immortalized cell lines• Established functional assay with primary microglia using flow cytometry with 3 colors• High content imaging with primary neurons and oligodendrocytes• High throughput imaging and assay generation with CX7

Greater Los Angeles Area

• Studied muscular dystrophy in mice histology, Western blots and qPCR• Explored the effect of clock genes on metabolism in mice and cell lines by histology, ICC, Western blots and qPCR• Training and orientation for 4 new lab members• Mentored 1 college intern and 2 high school interns• Managed mouse colonies, inventory and overall lab maintenance

Thesis Title: Establishing Maternal Embryonic Leucine-Zipper Kinase (MELK) as a novel target in the treatment of acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL). • Cultured and maintained various leukemia cell lines• Conducted mechanistic studies in cells with overexpression and RNA knockdown to elucidate a molecular signaling pathway for anticancer drug

Greater Los Angeles Area

Project: Establishing Monoamine Oxidase A as a novel target for the treatment of glioblastoma.• Cell culture and cell based assays using immortalized cell lines• Tissue collection and subsequent IHC and enzyme activity testing• Trained in animal handling, intra-cranial implantation of tumor cells with supervision

Pune Area, India

Work as a clinical pharmacist involved filling out prescriptions, patient counseling, stock inventory.Part of back-end management of the medical store like documentation, formulating standard operating procedures.

Pune Area, India

•Trained in the production and purification of bacterial vaccines and anti-toxins.•Trained in the production and purification of sera and anti-venoms.•Trained in the quality management and quality assurance techniques related to immunological products.•Trained in WHO labeling and regulatory standards for immunological products.•Trained in the back-end management areas like documentation, dispatching and supply chain.

Master Of Business Administration - Mba

Master Of Science (Ms), Molecular Pharmacology

Bachelor Of Pharmacy (B.Pharm.), First Class With Distinction