Experience

Craste

• India
• Packaging and Containers Manufacturing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Co-Founder

  • Jun 2018 - Present

  The Global Pulp and Paper industry is expected to increase, due to rising demand for paperboard packaging and tissue products. The demand for paper may projected at 521 million tonnes per annum by 2021. About 2.6% of the total world paper production comes from Indian Paper mills. However, mills are not allowed to own land or forest and can therefore not be self regulatory. Therefore, to maintain its structure, this industry in India is looking for alternate fibre resources. Secondly, crop burning is a huge issue wold-wide with farmers opting to use a matchstick as a cheap and a quicker way to get rid of crop waste post harvest before sowing the next crop. We, at Craste, are offering to use the crop-waste and covert it into value-added product to be used in paperboard and packaging industry offering solutions for a clean energy alternative source as well as tackling issues of pollution. Show less



Indian Institute of Science (IISc)

• India
• Research
• 700 & Above Employee

• Raman Fellow

  • Oct 2021 - Present

  Working of structural and functional aspects of Mycobacterium efflux pumps Working of structural and functional aspects of Mycobacterium efflux pumps



Gramiksha

• Non-profit Organizations
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Vice President

  • Aug 2011 - Present

  Gramiksha is a non-governmental organization, registered under MP Society Act, 1973, that works in the fields of community development, child welfare, education and literature. It operates in India (Gwalior, Indore, Bhopal, Delhi, Bangalore, and Jaipur). It was founded on 30th August 2011. Our work is to create interest among students for education. We donate books, install medical facilities, make the school’s environment hygienic and also organize activities and workshops. Our team is composed of students and graduates from schools and universities, and quite a lot of young working people. We don’t promise to make the entire India literate (or maybe deep down, we do) and change the circle of education, but we do promise to make a difference in Indian literacy rate and hopefully, it will do wonders for us. Show less



GCA

• Singapore
• Business Consulting and Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Head Of Innovation

  • Feb 2021 - Apr 2021



University of Cambridge

• United Kingdom
• Research Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• BBSRC Post Doctoral Research Fellow

  • Oct 2017 - Oct 2020



University of Cambridge

• United Kingdom
• Research Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• PhD Pharmacology

  • Oct 2013 - Jul 2017

  Antibiotic resistance presents therapeutic crisis worldwide and one of its causative factors is multidrug effluxpumps/transporters. They eject drugs/substrate out of the bacterial-cell and render them resistant. My research focus is an ATP binding cassette transporter-MsbA (Essential E.coli protein) and extrapolation of its architecture and energetics involved in drug/substrate transport. Since MsbA is also known for its lipid A flipping, my study also covers the study of lipid transport. The other part of my project is to design de novo peptides to mimic the structure of MsbA and to inhibit its function to further extend the research for the development of potential therapeutic agents against E. coli infections. Show less



Teva Pharmaceuticals UK

• Runcorn, UK

• Microbiology Scientist

  • Oct 2012 - Nov 2012



AstraZeneca

• United Kingdom
• Pharmaceutical Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Associate DMPK Scientist

  • Dec 2010 - Sep 2011

  I was based in DMPK/ADMET department with specialization in drug metabolism. I worked extensively on NSAIDs or acidic drugs to extrapolate their metabolic fate in humans (especially liver) to develop an assay to predict any associated prospective idiosyncratic toxicity pre-clinically. I focused mainly on Acyl CoA thioesters as potential toxic metabolites for acidic drugs in hepatocytes and identified glycine conjugates as bio-markers for the presence of thioester dependent metabolites toxicity. I was based in DMPK/ADMET department with specialization in drug metabolism. I worked extensively on NSAIDs or acidic drugs to extrapolate their metabolic fate in humans (especially liver) to develop an assay to predict any associated prospective idiosyncratic toxicity pre-clinically. I focused mainly on Acyl CoA thioesters as potential toxic metabolites for acidic drugs in hepatocytes and identified glycine conjugates as bio-markers for the presence of thioester dependent metabolites toxicity.



Shreedhar Bhats’ Laboratory

• Bangalore

• Research Assistant

  • Jul 2010 - Jul 2010

  1) Project involved isolation of plasmid DNA, insertion in the vector vehicle, cloning, cell culture, purification and amplification by PCR. 2) Prepared samples and test solutions to support on-going studies. 3) Handled storage of lab chemicals and recorded data on daily basis. 1) Project involved isolation of plasmid DNA, insertion in the vector vehicle, cloning, cell culture, purification and amplification by PCR. 2) Prepared samples and test solutions to support on-going studies. 3) Handled storage of lab chemicals and recorded data on daily basis.



Institute of bioscience and molecular biology

• Bangalore

• Project Trainee

  • Apr 2009 - May 2009

  Project training in “Gene Cloning Techniques” - Project involved isolation of plasmid DNA from bacteria by silica membrane column, restriction digestion of DNA, In Vitro DNA ligation, experience in Agarose gel electrophoresis and bacterial transformation. • Project training in “Immuno-techniques” - Training in Ouchterlony double diffusion, Radial Immunodiffusion, Enzyme- Linked Immunosorbent Assay, Counter Current Immunoelectrophoresis, Pregnancy detection (hCG) test, Hepatitis (HBs Ag) detection test and Latex Agglutination. Show less