Team

Scientists who have taken therapies from bench to clinic.

Leadership spanning discovery, manufacturing, translational research and commercialisation — with decades of experience in drug discovery, GMP manufacturing and clinical trials.

  • Drug discovery
  • GMP manufacturing
  • Clinical trials
  • Pre-clinical models
  • Patents & licensing
  • Innovation & start-ups
  • Biochemistry
  • Technology development

From molecule to market, under one roof

Each stage of taking a therapy to patients is led by someone who has done it before.

  1. Drug discovery

    125 NCEs & NBEs

    Dr. Anita Chugh
  2. GMP manufacturing & clinical trials

    India’s 1st liraglutide biosimilar

    Dr. Kadalmani Krishnan
  3. Animal trials

    Across multiple indications

    Dr. Abhishek Raj
  4. Advancing innovation

    Headed innovation centres

    Dr. Sangeeta Maini

Collective achievements

  • Collective record of the leadership team

    55

    Publications

    Peer-reviewed papers and book chapters across pharmacology, biochemistry and drug discovery.

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  • 46

    Patents filed

    Filed across the leadership team’s careers

  • $7M

    Grants

    Research funding secured

  • 20+

    Awards

    Honours and recognition

  • 2

    Books

    Authored

Where our team has trained and worked

  • AIIMS, New Delhi
  • McMaster University
  • Syngene
  • Ranbaxy
  • Advinus
  • Intox
  • University of Cambridge
  • Harvard University
  • Levim Lifetech
  • BCIL
  • University College London
  • IISER Pune
  • IILM University
  • Fudan University
  • Huashan Hospital
  • Shanghai Jiao Tong University
  • Ben-Gurion University
  • Bharathidasan University

Leadership

Decades of experience in drug discovery, GMP manufacturing and clinical development.

Portrait of Dr. Anita Chugh

Drug discovery125 NCEs & NBEs

Co-Founder & Chief Scientific Officer

Dr. Anita Chugh

Pharmacologist with 30+ years of experience in technology development, drug discovery across large and small molecules, patenting and licensing.

Ph.D.
AIIMS, Delhi, India
Post-doctoral Fellow
McMaster University, Canada
  • Technology development
  • Drug discovery
  • Large & small molecules
  • Patenting & licensing
Portrait of Dr. Kadalmani Krishnan

GMP manufacturing & clinical trialsIndia’s 1st liraglutide biosimilar

Founder & CEO

Dr. Kadalmani Krishnan

Biochemist with over 20 years of experience in product development, GMP manufacturing, pre-clinical and clinical trials.

Ph.D.
University of Cambridge, UK
Post-doctoral Fellow
Harvard University, USA
  • Product development
  • GMP manufacturing
  • Pre-clinical trials
  • Clinical trials

Executive leadership

Scientific and strategic leaders taking our platform from the lab towards the clinic.

Portrait of Dr. Sangeeta Maini

Dr. Sangeeta Maini

Vice President

Innovation and entrepreneurship leader with 16 years of experience building incubators, start-up ecosystems and technology-commercialisation programmes.

Ph.D.
Medical Physics & Bioengineering, University College London (UCL), UK
  • Innovation & entrepreneurship
  • Incubation & start-ups
  • Technology commercialisation
  • International collaborations
Portrait of Dr. Abhishek Raj

Dr. Abhishek Raj

Scientist

Biochemist with 7 years of postdoctoral research in China and Israel, including animal trials across multiple indications.

Ph.D.
Biotechnology & Biochemistry, Bharathidasan University, India
  • Animal trials
  • Lipid & protein biochemistry
  • Molecular biology
  • Cell culture
  • Pharma microbiology

Interns

Early-career researchers contributing to our laboratory and platform work.

Portrait of Ms. Kavita Singh

Ms. Kavita Singh

Research Intern

Biotechnologist in our Cell & Gene Therapy lab, developing γδ T cell therapy for MRD-AML, from PBMC isolation to scale-up expansion and FACS-based QC.

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