Experience

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  OmicsLogic Inc.

  • United States
  • Biotechnology Research
  • 1 - 100 Employee

  • Chief Executive Officer

    • Apr 2024 - Present

    As OmicsLogic’s Chief Executive Officer, I lead the mission to propagate a collaborative and forward-thinking culture, dedicated to realizing our shared vision while representing OmicsLogic to stakeholders, including investors, partners, customers, and the scientific community.I am a passionate researcher with a strong background in bioinformatics and computational biology, working to drive innovation and growth at OmicsLogic. I expertise in strategic planning, business development, and team leadership and I am committed to advancing scientific research and education through cutting-edge technology and collaborative partnerships.At OmicsLogic I am responsible to - Lead the strategic direction and operational management of OmicsLogic, a leading provider of bioinformatics solutions.Spearhead business development efforts, forging strategic partnerships and driving revenue growth.Oversee product development initiatives, ensuring the continuous improvement of software platforms and educational programs.Cultivate a culture of innovation, collaboration, and excellence, fostering the professional development of team members.About OmicsLogicOmicsLogic is a leading provider of bioinformatics and computational biology solutions, empowering researchers, educators, and organizations to leverage big data analytics for biological insights and discoveries. Through innovative software platforms, educational programs, and collaborative initiatives, OmicsLogic is driving advancements in genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, and other omics fields. Join us in our mission to revolutionize scientific research and education. https://omicslogic.com/

  • Director Global Business Development

    • May 2020 - Apr 2024

  • Director of Business Development

    • Apr 2019 - May 2020

    COLLABORATIONS: The Sum is Greater than the PartsI am currently working as a Director, Global Business Development for Pine Biotech, USA. In my current role, I am collaborating and working with Academia to provide Bioinformatics & High throughput Data analytics streamlined & designed into creative courses and curriculums 2) Intensive Projects on MultiOmics, Clinical and other large volume of data. (Online & Offline Courses, Internship, Data intensive projects with Biological Interpretation working towards POC). Collaboration with Pharma/Healthcare Industry to solve high priority scientific question related to Biomedical data analysis including the L&D and Bioinformatics capability development. Key Roles: Bioinformatics Workshops, Bioinformatics Course Design & Implementation, Sales & Marketing, Academic & Biopharma research & Collaboration

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  Excelra

  • Hyderabad Area, India

  • Business Development & Strategic Patnerships, USA

    • Aug 2018 - Mar 2019
    • Hyderabad Area, India

    I am currently working with the Pharma Analyst Team (PAT) as a Scientific Manager forBusiness Development & Strategic Partnership with Pharmaceutical Industry (North America,USA). As a bioinformatics team member, my role is to create collaborative partnershipswith healthcare Industry to solve and assist in crunching large data and performing analytics.Besides my role as a business developer contributing in sales I am also working on theimplementation of Al/ML & Deep learning technology in computational chemistry project fordrug development leveraging the discovery engine models for various targets followed bypharmacology and medicinal chemistry. The pipeline involves both large data screening(AI/ML&DL) using propriety database GOSTAR followed by cheminformatics solutions.Working domains: Immuno-Oncology, ML(machine learning) /AI(Artificial Intelligence), Drug Discovery(Computational Biology), Biomarker Discovery, Drug Purposing, Computational Chemistry and Large Data Analysis (BIO-IT).

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  Jawaharlal Nehru University

  • India
  • Higher Education
  • 700 & Above Employee

  • Research Associate

    • Apr 2018 - Jul 2018

    Worked on modelling and simulations of large protein complexes from (1700 AA) plant viralhelicases, peptide binding studies of adhesions like proteins (ALS) from Candida albicans &the movement of Hamp domains in histidine kinases using open source & proprietycomputational chemistry tools.

  • PHD Student

    • Aug 2013 - Apr 2018

    During my Ph.D., we developed a noble method to identify and predict calcium binding site incanonical EF-hand and its corresponding binding affinity towards calcium. I used acombination of amino acid features to drive multiple models using non-linear kernelimplemented in SVM. The first version of the algorithm was published in 2014 in PloS One andthe second version with major updates is under communication where I calculated the margindistance from the decision boundary to device a scoring mechanism for better classification.Later, designed a calcium binding site and incorporate the site into a known system (Entamoeba histolytica CaBP1) using site-directed mutagenesis and crystallized the N-terminalprotein to understand the binding mechanism. The web server which facilities EF-hand calciumbinding site prediction, binding affinity prediction, and design is available athttp://sbl.jnu.ac.in/calb/index.html. Other calcium-binding proteins that I could work uponwere Arabidopsis plant calmodulin and EhCaBP5, where we proposed DNA binding models forplant cam and role of Ehcabp5 in myosin interaction using freely available bioinformatics tools.

  • JRF(Junior Research Fellow) / Senior research fellow

    • Jan 2009 - Jul 2013

    Joining as a JRF I worked on numerous projects in collaboration with Ph.D. and post-doctoralfellows. I extensively worked on proteins of the cysteine biosynthetic pathway(EhSAT, PSAT,OASS) enzymes, mechanistic details of few proteins involved in replication machinery(Helicases, primase, β-Clamp), Actin-binding proteins (Coactosin, vGrG1, nPist, twinfillin) usingvarious sequences and structure-based methods.

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  University of Saskatchewan

  • Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada

  • Visiting Researcher

    • Aug 2017 - Feb 2018
    • Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada

    Worked with Dr Menna on PPAR gamma protein and tested known kinase inhibitors viadynamics and structural studies. Worked with Prof Jing Yang & Menna from the departmentof pharmacy & nutrition towards finding novel inhibitors / chemical analogs and drugrepurposing for cancer targets & cattle diseases using Schrodinger & AMBER software.

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  Bioexplore

  • Bioinformatics Consultant (Part Time)

    • Jan 2009 - Jun 2011

    I worked on various bioinformatics projects related to genomics and data curation. My role is to supervise and manage the projects helping with resources and innovative ideas.

  • Junior Scientist

    • Jul 2008 - Dec 2008

    Worked as junior scientist for first 6 months and then was working part time as bioinformaticsassisting in curation based projects and academic projects in collaboration with universitiesin USA and India.

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  Ranbaxy

  • Gurgaon, India

  • Intern

    • Jan 2008 - Jun 2008
    • Gurgaon, India

    I have completed my dissertation work under the supervision of Dr. Alka Khanna, Senior Research Scientist, Ranbaxy Research laboratories Limited, R&D 3, Gurgaon.Haryana, India. Topic of my Dissertation work was “Developing a web based tool for analysis of gene expression data” During my dissertation I wrote a tool for analysis of microarray gene expression data using PHP, JavaScript, Mysql and CGI Perl. The program is used for transformation and normalization of genepix (.gpr) data files produced and processed after microarray experiments and results were stored in a database using Mysql. The tool was able to identify and remove any systematic bias in the measured fluorescence intensities, arising from variation in the micro array process rather than from biological differences between the RNA samples or the printed probes.