DIPAK KALITA
R&D Professional With Over 22 Years Of Experiences In Syntheses And Product Development Of Various Small Molecule To Complex Products, Intermediates, NCE’s And API’s Of Peptides, Oligo Etc
Raichur
Summary
Accomplished with progressive industry background and decisive leadership style. Offers strategic planning abilities, background in change management and forward-thinking mindset. Ready for challenges and focused on meeting future demands. Performance-driven Vice President with 22 years of experience aligning systems with business requirements, policies and regulatory requirements. Passionate about applying excellent organization and communication skills to manage and lead teams. Results-oriented individual well-versed in interfacing and consulting on business processes to drive results based on sound overall business judgment. Results-driven with forward-thinking approach centered on company success and competitive growth. Demonstrated record of success in building successful teams and managing profitable operations.
Overview
24
24
years of professional experience
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Work History
Vice President R&D
Shilpa Pharma Lifesciences Limited
04.2023 - Current
- Identified opportunities to improve business process flows and productivity.
- Increased company growth through collaboration with R&D, Business Development, and marketing departments.
- Hired and managed employees to maximize productivity while training staff on best practices and protocols.
- Established performance goals for department and provided methods for reaching milestones.
- Files maximin number of DMFs/ANDA for Peptides and API segments
- Ens-to-end product delivery for customer needs
- Mitigated regulatory risks by overseeing adherence to insurance and safety regulations.
- Evaluated product development strategies and prepared alternative approaches to goal achievement.
Senior Director
Sai Life Sciences Limited
10.2020 - 03.2023
- Fostered work culture of collaboration and inclusion to increase morale and reduce turnover.
- Drove strategic improvements to enhance operational and organizational efficiencies.
- Lead the team of synthetic/process development scientists and efficiently manage scientific efforts and resources to attain project and management objectives in a timely manner.
- Provide visionary leadership and managerial skills to the multiple project groups in the process chemistry development and scale-up technologies.
- Responsible and accountable for P&L of PR&D projects and overall timeline with customer satisfaction index.
- Effectively communicate results and issues within the projects to management and stakeholders with the highest professional standard.
- Provide support to the business head in effective execution of research strategies.
- Strategies for new technology evaluation for product development, addition of nice capabilities to the organization.
- Setting up functional capabilities (facility and scientific) for process research and development (Phosphoramidite, Oligonucleotides and Peptides) and allocated valuable resources to meet business targets.
Director - Process Research and Development
Sai Life Sciences Limited
07.2017 - 09.2020
- Managed daily operations while overseeing multiple locations to foster increased productivity.
- Worked closely with organizational leadership to guide operational strategy.
- Develop a new technology platform for nucleosides, phosphonamidite, oligonucleotides, GalNAc chemistry, phosphor-lipids and peptides. Developed new laboratories/manufacturing facility for nucleosides and oligonucleotides chemistry and Peptides
- Champion the product owner concept. Identify and align KEY project activities and deliverables
Director, Chemistry Services
GVK Bioscience Private Limited
08.2014 - 06.2016
- Worked closely with organizational leadership and board of directors to guide operational strategy.
- Establishing and developing a new peptide and nucleotide-nucleoside Lab. at GVK Bio. Installed the PTI solid-phase peptide synthesizer, 25, 100 Lt lyophilizer, Novasap Preparative HPLC column, Thermofisher quadrupole MS/MS mass instruments, Silicycle parallel synthesizer, cryogenic centrifugation system etc.
- Leading a team of 50-60 members scientists and effectively manage scientific efforts and resources to achieve the project objectives in a timely manner (OTIF).
- Handling and executing various discovery chemistry projects for innovators across the Globe.
- Scale up to preclinical, clinical stages of discovery compounds in pipeline development for innovator.
Associate Director-Process R&D
Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories Ltd.
01.2011 - 08.2014
- Trained and developed department leaders and management staff for specific projects of Peptides, Oligos, Nucleosides etc. and ongoing operational needs.
- Assisted senior leadership in managing all aspects of operations.
- Led teams of up to 40 personnel, supervising daily performance as well as training and improvement plans.
- Managed data transfers and proactively resolved issues at manufacturing sites through effective troubleshooting.
Senior Scientist (Senior Manager) PR&D
Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories Ltd.
12.2006 - 12.2010
- Simultaneously managed several complex projects, meeting all pertinent milestones.
- Leading a team of 15-20 scientists.
- Process research and development of NCEs, APIs, intermediates and their scale up.
- Timely delivery of projects meeting customer requirements in terms of quality, quantity and cost.
- Project proposals, route scouting and development of non-infringing synthetic route.
- Custom synthesis and chemical development.
- Handling complex chemistry of peptides, carbohydrate etc.
- Liaising with projects managers and other line heads to ensure process development, resource allocation aligned with project priorities.
JST Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Nara Institute Of Science And Technology, Nara, Ikoma, Japan.
12.2002 - 03.2006
- Contributed to and actively participated in research conception, design and execution to address defined problems.
- Authored professional scientific papers for publishing in peer-reviewed journals.
- Peptide and peptidomics.
- Nucleoside, nucleotide and oligonucleotide chemistry
- Supramolecular chemistry (self-assembling of peptides, porphyrins and imidazolyl derivatives)
- Photodynamic therapy of linear polymeric, cyclic porphyrin arrays for cancer cell line treatment and nano sciences.
- Development of supramolecular science including synthesis, application to the nano-scale solar energy devices, optoelectronics materials, and important biological functional materials
VBL Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Okayama University, Okayama, Tshushima, Japan
09.2000 - 09.2002
- Contributed to and actively participated in research conception, design and execution to address defined problems.
- Peptide and Peptomimetics
- Nucleoside and nucleotide chemistry.
- Efficient synthesis of nucleic acid labelling reagents (DNP- 11ddGTP and DNP-11ddATP) and its analogues for the automated sequencing of DNA and RNA as terminators.
- Modified Oligonucleotides synthesis, 2’-fluor-dideoxy (FDDA) molecule, AZT molecule etc.
- Natural product chemistry
Research Associate
Indian Institute Of Technology (IIT), Guwahati, Assam
09.1999 - 09.2000
- Methodological work of synthetic importance
- Complex natural product synthesis. Enantioselective synthesis of bioactive natural products viz. antitumor compound “Epothilone”.
- Development of varieties organic ammonium tribromides and chromium based fluoro derivatives.
Education
Ph.D. - Synthetic Organic Chemistry (Macrolides & Steroids
CSIR-NEIST
Jorhat, Assam 04.2001 -
Master of Science - Organic Chemistry
Gauhati University
GUWAHATI 04.2001 -
Skills
Peptide Product Development
undefinedTimeline
Vice President R&D
Shilpa Pharma Lifesciences Limited
04.2023 - Current
Senior Director
Sai Life Sciences Limited
10.2020 - 03.2023
Director - Process Research and Development
Sai Life Sciences Limited
07.2017 - 09.2020
Director, Chemistry Services
GVK Bioscience Private Limited
08.2014 - 06.2016
Associate Director-Process R&D
Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories Ltd.
01.2011 - 08.2014
Senior Scientist (Senior Manager) PR&D
Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories Ltd.
12.2006 - 12.2010
JST Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Nara Institute Of Science And Technology, Nara, Ikoma, Japan.
12.2002 - 03.2006
Ph.D. - Synthetic Organic Chemistry (Macrolides & Steroids
CSIR-NEIST
04.2001 -
Master of Science - Organic Chemistry
Gauhati University
04.2001 -
VBL Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Okayama University, Okayama, Tshushima, Japan
09.2000 - 09.2002
Research Associate
Indian Institute Of Technology (IIT), Guwahati, Assam
09.1999 - 09.2000
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