Bio

Dynamic leader and highly motivated scientist with over 20 years’ experience in the pharmaceutical industry. Proven track record of scientific accomplishments through internal efforts and global collaborations with academic and industrial partners. Demonstrated ability to develop strategies and implement innovative platform technologies and methodologies in characterization and assay development for drug targets and therapeutic modalities (small molecules, peptides, biologics, gene therapy, novel modalities) across multiple therapeutic areas in support of drug discovery and development programs. Outstanding leadership with excellent interpersonal and management skills. Experienced program team leader in developing program strategy and leading matrix team to advance candidate molecules from discovery to development. Strong relationships with stakeholders of various functional groups in drug discovery and development. Authorship or co-authorship on over 95 publications in peer-reviewed journals and book chapters. Editors/co-editors for three books on pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical analysis. Co-inventorship on more than 30 U.S. patents (issued/pending). Over120 presentations at national/international conferences and academic institutes.