Soni Sankapal, Ph.D, Pmp Email & Phone Number

California, United States

Waltham, MA, US

Waltham, MA, US

• Manage concept-to-launch of clinical diagnostic solutions for various infectious diseases to raise revenue of $24 M by 2024
• Work closely with the Program Manager, internal and external partners, to achieve project goals, milestones, and timelines
• Drive requirements and strategy for developing an innovative healthcare products
• Collaborate effectively with management, medical affairs, clinical, engineering, business development, and regional marketing teams to define the product vision, business strategy and roadmaps
• Provide management and leadership skills to drive requirements, design, performance expectations, and strategy for developing RUO, FDA and CE-IVD-regulated molecular products
• Prepare for launches by developing differentiated value propositions, consistent messaging, positioning and support Sales with collateral, training to maximize commercial relevance and opportunities

Franklin Lakes, New Jersey, US

• Managed high-priority programs from Concept through Commercialization following PDP Phase Gate process to support the global launch of RUO, FDA, and CE IVD clinical products (including cancer diagnostic solutions).
• Cross-functional Leadership: Managed internal clinical site, 20+ US and international clinical/customer sites, external vendors and internal stakeholders for the successful launch of multiple products
• Developed strategy and delivered a ~$1M/year development cost reduction initiative by merging related products into one, more streamlined product
• Interfaced with internal and external partners to achieve project goals, milestones, and timeline
• Developed budgets/timelines for projects and collaborated cross-functionally to create, execute and communicate overall project plans (scope, schedule, staffing plans, quality, risk management, budget, and procurement).
• Identified needs for changes to plan and communicated them to the stakeholders to ensure program goals are in alignment with business objectives

Franklin Lakes, New Jersey, US

• Managed diverse business-critical customer experience projects like web content development, rebranding the customer-facing BD website, and standardizing Customer Service across 20+ business units (30+product lines) in.
• Developed, monitored and tracked project scope, schedule, and budget. Reported project status to upper management.
• Led weekly project meetings with the team to review project status, address and resolve any issues, assign action items, and mitigate risks
• Liaison for non-technical teams and helped them evaluate scientific/ research-based information
• Leveraged scientific education and experience while working on BD’s product portfolio
• Defined and optimized project management and development processes, methodologies, and tools to improve organizational efficiency and effectiveness

• PEPFAR (The U.S. President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief) fellow
• Worked with the African Ministry of Health and the CDC to train a hospital in Kenya, Africa

La Jolla, CA, US

• Defined project scope and design for projects related to next generation sequencing (HiSeq and MiSeq instrument platforms) for various research studies.
• Report project status, issues, risks and corrective actions to the management
• Create, update and maintain SOP, perform library construction, clustering using cBot, next-generation sequencing using HiSeq and MiSeq instrument platform
• Perform DNA/RNA analysis by qPCR, NanoDrop, Pico Green, TapeStation and bioanalyzer
• Work on troubleshooting next generation sequencing instruments

Pittsburgh, PA, US

• PhD thesis project focused on women’s health and understanding HIV transmission.
• Examine the possible cellular signaling pathways involved in early events of HIV transmission by tissue culture, PCR, and next generation sequencing
• Investigate inflammation and other host factors influencing HIV transmission using flow cytometry, tissue culture, in vitro cell culture, immunofluorescence, ELISA, and confocal microscopy
• Examine the role of reproductive hormones in HIV transmission through vaginal/cervical region in women during different phase of menstrual cycle

Antigen preparation of Mucor and Aspergillus and evaluate antibody reactivity in CNS infections.

Chennai, Tamilnadu, IN

IN

Studied physical, psychological and social aspects along with disorders and phenomenon in twins.

Colombo, Sri Lanka, LK

Analyzed water samples in the bore wells, lakes, ponds, rivers in Hosur and Kengeri(India) to know the presence of possible contaminants and devised possible measures to eliminate them.

Phd, Infectious Diseases And Microbiology

Master Of Science (M.S.), Microbiology

Bachelor Of Science (Bsc), Chemistry, Botany, Zoology