Combining AI, IoT and Deep Tech with Clinical Research to develop innovative products in Preventive Healthcare. Leading product development and clinical validation with physicians pan India.

Project Management :o Planning and managing organization wide projects to continually align ongoing projects with business goalso Creating project plans for multiple internal and client projects to define delivery milestones with appropriate resource and timeline estimations.o Building integrated plans and actionable metrics to – track progress, highlight dependencies within and across projects, facilitate contingency planning and ensure timely completion of projects.o Direct reporting to senior management in a matrix environmentExternal R&D Collaborations : o Developing and maintaining enduring collaborations with oncologists, hospitals and CROs to execute and support various research projects.o Executing research collaborations with due scientific and ethics committee approvals.o Developing and implementing processes for efficiency maximization in executing research projects.

• Developing and maintaining enduring research collaborations with hospitals and physicians (investigators) to support various research projects.• Preparing and executing documents for research collaborations - project protocols, ethics committee documents, agreements, etc.• Ensuring research studies are performed as per project protocols, approvals and guidelines.• Building Actionable Strategic Metrics, to aid in decision making and workflow optimization.• Developing and implementing tools for operational excellence and efficiency maximization in executing research projects.• Developing and maintaining various database management systems and databases.• Preparing scientific reports for research projects.

Leading and driving research & development initiativesProject 1: Designing and developing a fully automated instrument for cleaning, disinfection and sterilization of surgical instruments and other medical devices.Project 2: Development and validation of a novel plant-based anti-diabetic formulation.• Conceptualization and designing of instrument• Process development and standardization• Designing and performing microbiological assays to assess the microbial bioburden pre and post disinfection• Collaborations with hospitals, physicians, CROs and other firms for value addition

Co-invented 'CanAssist Breast', novel Immunohistochemistry based diagnostic test to determine the ‘risk of recurrence’ in breast cancer patients based on extensive knowledge of signaling pathways operative in cancer cells.• Awarded co-inventorship in company’s patent on technology• Awarded co-authorship and acknowledgement in publications• Founder (first) employee in R&D. Contributed to product development and validation• Planning and performing routine lab experiments for standardization of markers, and assessment of marker expression in tumor tissues – Immunohistochemistry (IHC), Hematoxylin & Eosin (H&E) staining. • Collaboration with Hospitals, Statisticians and other firms for product development, enhancement and value addition.• Sample and data collection from hospitals.• Statistical data analysis - interpretation and improvisation• Leading team of 6 members including pathologists, postgraduates and lab technicians.

- Completed a project entitled “Characterization of complex nitrogen source used for recombinant protein production in Pichia fermentation” at R&D PDP (upstream).- Running batches in 2 and 10 liter fermenters for production of recombinant protein from Pichia pastoris - media preparation, seed preparation, autoclaving, sterile seed inoculation, routine feeding and monitoring, harvesting, washing.- Designing & performing biochemical tests like estimation of protein, urea, ions, nitrogen, phosphate, carbohydrates, reducing sugars and spectrophotometric enzymatic assays.- Designing & performing microbiological tests and assays like routine sterility check using spread plate method and estimation of proteinase activity using agar plate well diffusion method. - Developing and standardizing 2 protocols for quantitative and qualitative estimation of trypsin inhibitor in the sample.

- Industrial Training in QC microbiology; chemical, QA, production and packing and store.

Industrial Training in production and QC microbiology

Industrial Training in -Productions of vaccines: Hepatitis, DPT, Rabies, MMR, etc. Quality control - microbiology