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Senior Scientist at Merck
Senior Scientist at Merck
Merck
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South San Francisco, California, United States
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Senior Scientist
The Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson
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Spring House, Pennsylvania
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Senior Associate Scientist
The Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson
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Continue working in various areas of Cell Line Development and Characterization
Spring House, PA
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Associate scientist ll, Cell Line Development
The Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson
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•Responsible for tasks involving generation and characterization of stable CHO cell lines expressing variety of therapeutic proteins
•Experience leading a CHO cell line development project collaborating with groups, both upstream and downstream, of the CLD.
•Developing a scale down microbial fermentation platform with experience in media opt, process opt (1L DasGip fermentors) and tech transfer.
•Experience with analytical and purification processes/instruments : UPLC-MS (QTof Hybrid), AKTA explorers etc.
•Subject Matter Expert (SME) in collaboratively developing a platform for Data Management with training in S88 Recipe Structure and OSI PI (OsiSoft inc. integration and client tools)
•Involved with various High-Throughput and Lab Automation tools related to CLD.
•Contribute to technical report writing (tech transfer reports, SOP), electronic notebook documentation
Spring house, PA
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Associate Scientist, Cell Line Development
GlaxoSmithKline
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Continued working as an Associate Scientist after Co-op with similar job responsibilities
Philadelphia, United States
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Associate Scientist, Microbial and Cell Culture Development (MCCD)
GlaxoSmithKline
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Develop and optimize expression platforms of Microbial and Mammalian Cell lines to enhance the production of bio-therapeutics.
With tasks involving-
•	Constructing expression vectors compatible with Yeast and Bacterial host strains
•	Clone Selection using DasGip evaluation (small scale Bio-reactors)
•       Assist with cell banking, cell counting, transfection and passaging of Mammalian cells (CHO cells)
• Carry out production study (Feed and Batch) to select and evaluate a stable cell line
•	Involved in cell analysis using FACS Calibur® and cell sorting using FACS Aria® Flow Cytometer, respectively.
•	Coordinate with Scale-up and Process Development group
•	Data recording and management by maintaining work orders and SOPs
•	Survey journal and research articles for the latest advancements in Cell Line Development.
United States
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R&D Co-op Student - Microbial and Cell Culture Development (MCCD) department
Penn State University
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Studies involving investigation of various tissue and life stage-specific samples at the host-parasitic interface for the identification of genes involved in parasitic plant lifestyle
Duties involved :-
•  Co-culturing of parasitic plants under sterile tissue culture conditions involving sterilization, scarification and germination
•  Routine RNA and genomic DNA isolation
•  Quantitative and Qualitative assessment of mRNA and total RNA using Agilent Bio-analyzer
•  Conducted Fluorometric assays for DNA quantification
•  Designed primers for PCR analysis
United States
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Research Assistant, Plant Biology Laboratory
Bhat Biotech (P) Ltd.com
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Developed,optimized and implemented new strategies involved in the detection of antibodies against recombinant HIV-1 antigen using high throughput ELISA techniques. 
This research led to the successful development of ELISA based kits for commercial use.
Bangalore, India
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Intern
Bhat Biotech (P) Ltd.com
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Industrial training in rDNA Technology, Protein Purification & Immuno Assay Techniques.
Key Skills acquired:
Immuno-electrophoresis techniques, Blood grouping, protein purification techniques
Banaglore, India
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Industrial Trainee
Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO)
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•   Completed a research training project on rare high altitude medicinal plants.
•   Used advanced Molecular Biology Techniques to investigate factors involved in the enhancement of shelf-life of perishable food items.
Leh Area, India
Intern
New Horizon College of Engineering (NHCE)
•   Conducted independent research project on ‘Antimicrobial activity of Medicinal Plants on various Micro-organisms’
•   Investigated the studies using Disc Diffusion(Kirby-Bauer) sensitivity assay involving Minimal Inhibitory Concentration (MICs) evaluation
•   Determined minimum lethal concentration (MLC) of the anti-bacterial compounds
Bangalore, India
Student Researcher
PSM (Professional Science Masters)
Biotechnology
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Penn State University
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Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.)
Biotechnology
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Visvesvaraya Technological University
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Physics, chemistry, mathematics and Biotechnology
Army Public School, New Delhi
Sartorius Stedim Biotech
MVDA
Multivariate Data Analysis
WD Communications
Technical Writing
OSIsoft
Visualizing PI System Data
BD-GenCell Biosystems
BD FACSAria ll Operator Course
TAP Biosystems
ambr 250 Introductory Operator Training Course
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Lansdale, PA
Xingyu LU
Associate Scientist / Postdoc at Merck
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New York City Metropolitan Area
Kavisha Ulapane
Senior Scientist at Merck
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Riverton, NJ
Michael Haider
Senior Scientist at Merck
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United States
Dan Sindhikara
Principal Scientist at Merck
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Cambridge, MA
Stephen Kasper
Associate Principal Scientist, Exploratory Science Center at Merck
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Boston, MA
Ghassan Fayad
Principal Scientist, Biologics Discovery, PPDM ADME at Merck
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Boston, MA
Mathias Pawlak
Associate Director / Principal Scientist - Immunologist & Stem Cell Engineer - BlueRock Therapeutics
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Bethesda, MD
Emily Levy, PhD
Senior Scientist at Merck
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New York City Metropolitan Area
Mahesh J. Patel
Cardiologist, Scientist, & Executive Director at Merck Research Laboratories
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Greater Boston
Fei Liu
Principal Scientist at Laronde
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Greater Boston
Todd Cogdell
Sr. Talent Acquisition Consultant
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Boston, MA
Fatemeh Jalali
Biology-Discovery and immunology Scientist at Merck
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New York, NY
Jennifer Johnston
Director, Modeling and Informatics at Merck
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Greater Boston
Jeff Bissen
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Seoul Incheon Metropolitan Area
John Rim
CEO Samsung  Biologics 삼성바이오로직스
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New York City Metropolitan Area
Xiaoxue Shen
Scientist
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Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill Area
Bijaya Upadhyaya, DVM, PhD
Scientist at Catalent Pharma Solutions | Nanoparticles | Dietary Ingredients | Immuno-Oncology
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Greater Houston
VINEETA SHARMA
Technical Lead
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Professional Science Master's Initiative
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