A seasoned professional and solution-driven leader with extensive experience in building high-value organizations, result-oriented teams, developing and retaining top talent, and leading in a matrix environment. Advice and execution of highly sensitive, strategic decisions and projects. Held several key positions in the pharmaceutical industry spanning around 25 years with a focus on infectious diseases research and development. Established an IHMA affiliate company in India (IHMA India LLP) and successfully providing services for drug discovery and development including surveillance studies, clinical trials, and other key milestones along the continuum from drug development to commercialization to clients around the world in the biotechnology, pharmaceutical, and diagnostic industries.Establishing and maintaining ongoing global client-specific antimicrobial surveillance and supporting clinical trial microbiology initiatives. Experience in developing technical reports and documents including in the field of AMR.Expertise to build class infrastructure and successful innovation record for execution of new antimicrobial portfolio from target discovery through the clinic. Lead result-oriented drug discovery cross-functional teams and discovered novel mechanism of action antibiotics that have progressed through Phase 1.Co-inventor, international discovery project team leader, and clinical development core team member for the novel antibacterial compound DS-2969 against C. difficile and MRSA infection. Played an instrumental role in introducing newer technology and developing effective project cascade, business development, and working out external collaborations with CROs and research institutions. Having business acumen to attract strategic business collaborations and effectively managed projects. Expert and key decision-maker in business development strategy and licensing opportunities. Demonstrated success in quality microbiology operations, management of Microbiology labs, and successfully provided compliance to major regulatory agencies. Provided guidance to research scholars, Ph.D. students, and authored more than 50 conference presentations/ abstracts/ publications and patents.
Listed skills include Drug Discovery, Microbiology, Life Sciences, Pharmaceutical Industry, and 18 others.
