SCIENTIFIC TEAM
Saptarshi Paul
Lead Scientist
Dr. Paul is an established scientist in the field of, Molecular biology and Biotechnology. Prior to joining Epygen he worked at the prestigious Tata Institute of Fundamental Research and US Vitamins for 13 years at various research levels on biosimilars and therapeutic protein development. For nearly a decade prior to that, Dr. Paul did research at Thomas Jefferson University-Philadelphia and UMDNJ-RWJMS, Rutgers, New Jersey, USA. His areas of expertise include recombinant therapeutics, mammalian and yeast gene cloning and expression, vector design and engineering, protein purification, gene regulation and protein engineering. Dr. Paul is a Ph.D. in Biochemistry from Jadavpur University, India.
Prabakaran K.
Chief Scientific Advisor
Dr. Prabakaran is a well known expert in the field of Protein Purification and Fermentation with more than two decades of experience in Fermentation and Downstream Purification of critical therapeutic proteins. With focus in the later stage of his career on chromatography of sensitive proteins, Dr. Prabakaran has led several bio-molecules to industrial success. Prior to Epygen Dr. Prabakaran served as Executive Vice President at Strides Acrolab and as Chief Scientific Officer at leading Bio-pharmaceutical companies in the region. He has done a post doctoral research at the prestigious AN Bach Institute of Biochemistry in Moscow and Ph.D. from Sardar Patel University, India.
Punit Bansal
Senior Scientist
Dr. Punit is a specialist in preclinical Drug Discovery of metabolic disorders (diabetes and obesity), pain and inflammation. He has worked extensively over 8 years in pharmacological profiling of new drug molecules and his industrial experience prior to Epygen group had been with Panacea Biotec Ltd, India. He has several publications to his credit and reviews international journals. Punit holds a Ph. D. in Pharmacology from Manipal College of Pharmaceutical Sciences, India.
Rishikesh Gupta
Senior Scientist
Dr. Gupta is involved in Epygen as a Bioprocess Scientist developing fermentation technology, protein purification and strain development at the Biotech Incubation Center. Dr. Gupta has obtained his M.Tech. in Biotechnology and Ph.D. in Industrial Biotechnology from Anna University, Chennai, India.
Thangadurai C.
Senior Scientist
Dr. Thanga is a Genetic Engineer with several years of experience in cloning and expression of recombinant proteins from various origins. His Biotech Industry experience focuses on directed evolution of gene and high throughput robotic screening as well as designing of vectors to improve the over expressing proteins. Thanga conducted his Post Doctoral Research at the Dept. of Molecular Pharmacology /Therapeutics and Dept. of Physiology, at the Loyola University Medical Center, Maywood, Illinois, USA. He has a Ph.D. in Biotechnology from the Center for Biotechnology, Anna University, India.