Experience

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  Lux Research

  • United States
  • Research Services
  • 100 - 200 Employee

  • Associate Research Director

    • Oct 2023 - Present

  • Senior Analyst - Consumer Health Sciences

    • Apr 2023 - Oct 2023

    • Leads the Consumer Health Sciences research at Lux, focusing on a range of topics that include digital health, wearables, biosensors, etc• Key responsibilities include planning the research agenda and expanding the organizations internal subject matter expertise on new and emerging digital technologies relevant to consumer health. • Research is also focused on identifying technologies that support sustainability goals.

  • Senior Analyst - Digital Health

    • Mar 2021 - Mar 2023

    - Returned to Lux to continue to lead, grow and expand the digital health practice - My new remit also includes expanding our subject matter expertise in other new and emerging digital technologies such as blockchain, quantum computing, satellite imaging and carbon tracking and management tools in the Digital Transformation team that impact the physical industries such as the materials, manufacturing, chemicals, energy, agrifood and CPG sectors.

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  ACCESS Health International

  • Singapore

  • Senior Consultant

    • Apr 2020 - Mar 2021
    • Singapore

    • Led the consulting practice, primarily looking at three verticals: health financing innovation, digital transformation of healthcare and health technology innovation.• Achievements include successfully helping a top 5 global biopharma to solve affordability challenging in accessing innovative medicines in Latin America. Client successfully developed business plans with partners in co-creation workshops we facilitated. • Also helped develop and implement internal processes to enhance consulting capabilities.

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  Lux Research

  • Singapore

  • Analyst - Digital Health

    • Jul 2018 - Apr 2020
    • Singapore

    • Key responsibilities include developing syndicated market research and providing strategic services to Fortune 500 clients and contributing to revenue growth in the business • Developed new areas of research and analysis around emerging innovation in digital health, precision medicine, genomics and insurtech• Contributed directly to upsells of advisory services by more than 20% of ACV (annualized contract value) since joining the organization through collaborative work with the Sales/Marketing teams

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  A*STAR - Agency for Science, Technology and Research

  • Singapore
  • Research Services
  • 700 & Above Employee

  • Assistant Head, Industrial Development Group

    • Sep 2017 - Jun 2018

    • Key responsibility is to foster public-private partnerships within the A*STAR ecosystem in the biomedical sciences to support economic outcomes for the Singapore economy. • As the Precision Medicine and Digital Health Lead, Nardev led the formation of an industry consortium to partner up with the Singapore public sector R&D ecosystem• Managed the industrial engagements of 4 different research institutes and contributed to bringing in industrial investments >SGD2 million to the A*STAR ecosystem.• In addition to the role in A*STAR's Industrial Development Group, Nardev was also wearing an additional hat where he was part of the Biomedical Sciences Industry Partnership Office (BMS IPO), an office jointly set up by Ministry of Health (MOH), Singapore, Singapore Economic Development Board (EDB) and A*STAR. The office serves the wider research community outside of A*STAR.

  • Research Scientist

    • Jul 2015 - Sep 2017

    • Full time secondment to a local startup, Davos Life Science to help build a small and agile team of metabolic scientists to research and develop new applications for palm-derived natural compounds for metabolic health and well-being• Established and executed experiments that resulted in a patent filing as the lead inventor within 6 months. • Established strategic academic collaborations from three different laboratories in less than one year.

  • Research Fellow

    • Nov 2012 - Jun 2015

    • Spearheaded and drove research on elucidating the molecular basis of lipodystrophy, a rare genetic disorder that affects fat development in humans using genetic mouse models and in vitro cell culture systems. • Contributed to and published in peer-reviewed journals

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  VisVires New Protein (VVNP)

  • Singapore

  • External Consultant

    • Jul 2016 - May 2017
    • Singapore

    • Provided external perspective and insights on early stage due diligence on promising food technology startups on a pro-bono, voluntary basis.• Some early startups have gone to become portfolio companies.

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  A*STAR - Agency for Science, Technology and Research

  • Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology

  • Research Officer

    • Apr 2007 - Sep 2008
    • Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology

    Investigated the role of heparan sulphate proteoglycans (HSPGs) in maintaining pluripotency in mouse and human embryonic stem cells

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  A*STAR - Agency for Science, Technology and Research

  • Genome Institute of Singapore, Biopolis, Singapore

  • Research Intern

    • 2005 - 2005
    • Genome Institute of Singapore, Biopolis, Singapore