Objective: Discovery of new medicinesSummary of experience:• Systematic Drug Discovery experience: Experience in HTS hit evaluation, extensive experience as a lead chemist for lead generation and lead optimization in infection drug discovery; hands-on experience in structure-aided lead generation• Expertise in small molecule synthesis and synthetic methodologies, multiple-parallel synthesis, discovery lab scale-ups, chiral methodologies, separation of stereoisomers, chiral resolutions, chemoenzymatic synthesis• Structure based drug design: collaborated with computational chemist and crystallographer for structure-aided drug design, hands on experience in using and applying in-silico tools for drug design to improve potency and properties during optimization process• Completed a six month sabbatical at AstraZeneca, Lund, Sweden focused on Lead Generation and Lead Optimization activities; trained on using multiple-parallel synthesis set-up • Project Management: Served as project lead for TB drug discovery program at lead identification and lead optimization phase; key role in strategic planning, coordination of multidisciplinary activities for project progress • Wrote two research grant proposals to the external funding agency like Wellcome Foundation Trust• Authored several papers and patents• Reviewer for medicinal chemistry papers in international journals like J Med Chem, E J Med Chem• Completed a one year course on “Bulletproof Management” from Crestcom – focused largely on leadership and management of people and the projects