Experience

Hutano Diagnostics Ltd
• United Kingdom
• Biotechnology Research
• 1 - 100 Employee
• Principal Scientist

  • Jan 2023 - Present


PocDoc

• Hospitals and Health Care

• Research And Development Scientist

  • Jan 2020 - Dec 2022

  Working as R &D Scientist and developed a simple facile biosensor to detect biomarkers from whole blood. The device has obtained the UKCA mark. Significant contributions to a complete lifecycle of product development. Developed and translated assay from lab based to a point-of-care devices. Expertise in managing, operating and developing protocol for nanoliter spotting of aqueous solutions using BioDOT AD1520. Established rigorous QC procedures for various components during different stages of product development. Experience working with microfluidics or integrated biological systems Experience with authoring/executing controlled documents such as test methods, SOPs, clinical work, various studies and technical reports. Experiences in experimental design, execution and data analysis. Experiences working and designing for standard manufacturing processes. Experience of working in a highly regulated- ISO13485, product development industry and QMS. Ability to work cross-functionally between R&D, Manufacturing, Quality and Regulatory teams Experience in Root Cause Analysis techniques. Experience with prototyping approaches for microfluidics such as soft lithography, injection moulding. Knowledge of Good Laboratory Practice. Show less



University of Southampton

• United Kingdom
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Postdoctoral Research Fellow

  • Oct 2019 - Jan 2020

  Development of droplet microfluidic based chemical sensors for rapid measurements of nutrients in water.Development of super hydrophobic microfluidic devices. Sensor development based on droplet based microfluidic device. Troubleshooting existing sensor to identify problem and explore different solutions.

• Postdoctoral Research Fellow

  • Feb 2017 - Oct 2019

  • Research fellow on project in industrial partnership with venture capitalist- Artiman Ventures, California, US. Identified the challenges on the project and worked towards the providing solutions for the problems at different phases of the project. • Developed reproducible biofunctionalization protocols for nanowire bio-sensing applications.• Investigated surface modifications of metal oxides, glass, PDMS, membranes and characterized them using AFM, SEM, fluorescence microscope.• Investigation of surfaces and on methods to improve the surface chemistry for functionalization for nanowire biosensing.• Designed and fabricated low-cost and disposable microfluidic chip for loading and preparation of the sample for biosensing platform.• Liaise with academic partners and industrial partners US on weekly and monthly basis to understand and meet the requirements of the project. • Supervised few students on the dissertation and UG project work. Show less

• Research Assistant

  • Jul 2016 - Jan 2017

  • Investigating the development of GUV’s using microfluidic device for delivering antibiotics with nanoparticles. • Developing GUV’s with bacterial lipids (gram positive and negative bacteria)• Design and development of microfluidic platform for analysis using microscopes. • Liaise with academic partners weekly and monthly basis to understand and meet the requirements of the project.