My journey from IITM to graduate school and onto pharma R&D

Abstract

I will give a brief overview of the path I have taken so far that led me from insti to a career in research across academic and industry institutions. I will focus on the decisions and actions that created this path, and hope to share what I have learnt along the way.

Biography of the speaker

I did my BTech Biotech at IITM passing out in 2008. I then went on to do a PhD in Molecular Biophysics at UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas working on G protein signaling in the lab of Dr.Elliott Ross. After this, I was a NCBS-Cambridge postdoctoral fellow in the labs of Dr.Christian Frezza and Dr.Sunil Laxman, where I did various projects on understanding yeast metabolism, designing metabolite sensors and applying these to study metabolic rewiring in cancers. I then joined AstraZeneca as a senior scientist in the basic R&D division, where I am a member of the Discovery Sciences team working on different oncology projects.