To obtain a position in an organization where I can use my 9+ years of experience in the field of life sciences, Health care and pharmaceutical industry
1.4 years of work experience in Genomics, Bioinformatics and AI as Scientific Curator at Lifebytes Bioinformatics consulting, Bengaluru
8.1 years of work experience in Bioinformatics, AI and ML as Research associate at Jubilant Biosys (CRO), Bengaluru
4 Months of work experience in R&D PDP upstream as trainee at Biocon
Work History
Scientific curator
Lifebytes Bioinformatics consulting
Bangalore
Curation of gene-disease relationships, and variants information from peer-reviewed scientific journals from PubMed, GeneReview, Medgen, OMIM and/ or through direct submissions
Key Opinion Leaders (KOL) identification and mapping, profiling including associations, research interests and publications
Virtual WGS, WES and CNV panel development for rare genetic disease diagnosis focused on pediatric patients
Building structured data from the existing proprietary knowledge base of variants and genes
Establishing SOP's and maintain quality control of curated data
Work closely with project sponsor, cross-functional teams and assigned project leaders to monitor scope, deliverables, resources, work plan, budget and timing for all projects
Identify key requirements needed from cross-functional teams and external vendors
Develop and manage budget for projects and be accountable for delivering against established business goals/objectives
Analyze, evaluate and program risks and produce program reports for management and stakeholders
Collaborating with internal teams like Finance, Bioinformatics, Genomics and AI, execution to meet revenue targets and provide application support to improve sales effectiveness and customer satisfaction
Follow-up post project services for feedback for effective customer complaint resolving and proposing corrective/preventive action for the same.
Research Associate
Jubilant Biosys Pvt ltd
Bangalore
07.2012
Manual curation of scientific research articles which includes information of gene expression during disease condition, protein function and pathophysiology of disease
Analysis of cell lines and animal model studies, pharmacodynamics and pharmacokinetics studies of drugs
Analysis of investigational and marketed drugs and MOAs in cancer and rare diseases
Document preparation related to compound bioactivity data against drug targets which includes adverse effects, toxicity and drug-like properties of bioactive molecules
Development of database regarding rare diseases
It involves preparation of report on rare diseases which helps in the field of drug discovery
Data analysis of mutation, SNP of various genes effects on diseases and treatment, efficacy of drug in pre-clinical and clinical stage of studies
Analyzing literature data related to recent developments in therapeutic area and validation of gene as potential target for drug discovery
Clinical trial data analysis involving drug responses, disease management and clinical significance of the trial
Expert in analyzing clinical trial success based on data available in clinical trial database and pharmaceutical companies' newsletters
Quality assurance for the development of a public database in client-based projects
Hands-on experience with large-scale clinical data management.
Project trainee in R&D PDP upstream
Biocon Pvt ltd
Bangalore
09.2010 - 01.2011
Biochemical assays (sugar estimation, starch analysis etc) and preparing media for the optimization studies
Handling shakes flask trails till the fermentation process.
Education
M.Sc in Biotech -
JSS College,Mysore
B.Sc (CBZ) -
P.E.S College, Mandya
Skills
Data science-SQL and Python
Biocuration-Text mining, Ontologies, Data analysis
Clinical Data Analysis
Project Management
Business Development and Lead generation
Managing Client relationships
Proposal development
Publications
Published review article in 2016 titled- "PAD4: pathophysiology, current therapeutics and future perspective in rheumatoid arthritis" in journal Expert opinion on therapeutic targets with JIF-4.8
Published review article in 2018 titled- "Targeting HIF2A as therapy for advanced cancer" in journal drug discovery today with JIF-6.3
Academic Project Work
Isolation and purification of amylase from Manihot Esculanta (Cassava), Isolation and purification of amylase, comparative study between salivary amylase and cassava amylase on commercial and cassava starch by time kinetics and turbidometric method., JSS College of Science Mysore
Personal Qualifications
M.Sc in Biotech, 66%, JSS College,Mysore, 2008 - 2010
Senior backend/full stack developer at EMBL's European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI)Senior backend/full stack developer at EMBL's European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI)
Bioinformatics Training Associate at Melbourne Bioinformatics, University of MelbourneBioinformatics Training Associate at Melbourne Bioinformatics, University of Melbourne
FRONT DESK/ RECIPTION ASSISSTANT & TECHNICIAN at UB Department of BioinformaticsFRONT DESK/ RECIPTION ASSISSTANT & TECHNICIAN at UB Department of Bioinformatics