Vijay Raghavan, Ph.D., Smba Email & Phone Number

Galway, County Galway, Ireland

- Support business development & licensing activities, and structuring of transactions in accordance with strategic priorities- Currently in the process of raising Series A capital investment to enable the clinical translation of our lung cancer asset and pipeline expansion with preclinical proof-of-concept for multiple other lung disorders

Galway Metropolitan Area

• Coordinating STARSTEM, a project developing a combination medical product with a budget of €6M and collaboration among multiple partners in Europe • Lead author of STARSTEM proposal (success rate of EU-funding < 4%), the scientific excellence of which is based on my Ph.D. research work on nanomaterials for biomedical applications• Act as Technical Facilitator by way of managing the technical baseline of the product by bridging the gap between multidisciplinary scientific research, data analysis, and ethics & regulatory processes• Play an important role in Planning and Coordination as displayed by co-drafting the Systems Engineering Plan (SEP) and Integrated Master Plan (IMP), and the maintenance of the Integrated Master Schedule (IMS)• Effective stakeholder management by analysing the power, influence, and interest of each stakeholder, and engage and communicate with them accordingly• Multifunctional and system-level perspective enabled the understanding of contributions of multiple functions/departments, and overall effectiveness from multiple functional perspectives• Involved in full product realisation process including design, development & testing to ensure the preservation of the system architecture

Galway, Ireland

• Gold nanoparticles as contrast agent for Photothermal Optical Coherence Tomography• Numerical simulations to investigate nanostrucutres’ photothermal efficacy by finite element method using COMSOL Multiphysics and DEVICE • Coordination of research collaboration among multiple partners in Europe and USA for two EU Horizon 2020 research proposals• Market research and competitive analysis of SMEs in EU as partners for the H2020 proposals

Galway, Ireland

• Nanostructure synthesis and characterisation- Successful wet-chemical synthesis of various colloidal anisotropic nanostructures with visible and near infrared (NIR) localised surface plasmon resonance (LSPR)- Nanoparticle characterisation using electron microscopy (HRTEM and SEM), UV-Vis-NIR spectrophotometer, AFM, zeta potential analyzer, DLS, ICP-MS, AAS, etc.- Surface functionalisation with peptides and synthetic polymers- Nanoparticle contrast based fluorescence and Raman (SERS) imaging• Nanofabrication of plasmonic gold nanostructures for Biosensing• Experience in cell culture techniques including optimisation of cellular uptake, cytotoxicity and physico-chemical characterization of the bio-conjugated nanoprobe• Thermo-plasmonics and in vivo Optical Imaging- Successful pre-clinical study of NIR laser (1064 nm) induced photothermal therapy using plasmonic gold nanostars in mice model- In vivo Optoacoustic/Ultrasound monitoring of Photothermal therapy• Optical instrumentation- Experience with in-house experimental laser setups using gas and solid state lasers- Optimisation of DPSS and nanosecond laser irradiation for in vivo photothermal treatment • Optical modelling of laser-material interaction using finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) method and finite element method (FEM) using COMSOL Multiphysics and DEVICE• Secondment at National Cancer Centre Singapore for 7 months for a collaborative project on nanoparticle induced laser therapy of cancer • Collaborated with clinicians and scientists from various specialties and communicating with research groups across different time zones, resulting in publication of multiple research reports and articles

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

• Optical analysis of tissues and body fluids for early detection of cancers • Spectrofluorimetric analysis and interpretation of emission, excitation and synchronous spectra of bio-samples like tissues, blood plasma, urine and sputum • Analysis of fluorescence and Raman spectral data for quantizing specific cancer biomarkers • Prior art search and drafting of Patents • Data analysis, including basic statistical analysis, for submission of research papers in international journals

Melbourne And Bangalore

• Responsible to identify business opportunities and, build and maintain long-term relationships with clients • Close collaboration with the technical development team to impart clients’ and market needs• Demonstrated business acumen to perform gap analysis for BIT business processes and future direction• Negotiation and persuasion skills enabled convincing and signing of MoUs for collaboration and product orders• Provided domain specific consultation on end-to-end health informatics platform • Secondment at BIT Melbourne for product research and market analysis for Australian market

• Analysis of genomics and proteomics data using various bio-informatics tools• Testing of products on intelligent character recognition for digitising handwritten records• Promoted to Business Development Manager in a year for exceptional client relations and project management skills

Doctor Of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Nanobiophotonics

Title: Multimodal Gold Nanoprobes for Optical Imaging and Therapy of Cancer - Synthesis and characterisation of gold nanostars.

Master'S Degree, Biotechnology

Activities and Societies: • Analysis of new SYTO9 and conventional SYBR Green I as DNA double-strand intercalating dyes for real-time PCR.