Leadership & Team

Leadership

Co-Founders

Intro

PhD, Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore Post-Doctorate – European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBO-Marie Curie fellow)

Biophysics, crystallography, bio-materials, structure based macro-molecular design, protein biochemistry and computational biology

Tuhin Bhowmick

CEO & Director

Intro

MSc (Engg.) Research, Dept. of Aerospace Engg., Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore. Dept. Gold medalist 2012- Best thesis. Forbes Asia 30-under-30 2016- Healthcare and science

Systems engineering, solid rocket propulsion, advanced manufacturing and technical management

Arun Chandru

CTO & Director

Our Team

Abhinav Kumar

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Abhinav Kumar

As Associate Director – Strategic Alliances, Abhinav works closely with the senior management in fundraising efforts of Pandorum. He earned an MBA from FMS – Delhi after his BTech in Electronics & Communication from BIT – Mesra. Abhinav comes with 10+ years of experience in business development within the Pharma sector. Before joining Pandorum, he was working with Biocon Biologics as Senior Manager of Business Development

Abhishek Haldar

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Abhishek Haldar

As the Head of Human Resources, Abhishek leads all aspects of Human Resource practices at Pandorum. Prior to Pandorum, he was working as a Consultant with Infosys on multiple change management projects to improve employee performance. Abhishek holds a Master’s degree in Human Resource Management and a BTech in Mechanical Engineering.

Alka Bhat

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Alka Bhat

As a Research Scientist at Pandorum, Alka works on both experimental and computational areas. Alka earned a Ph.D. in Cell Biology from IGBMC Strasbourg, France where her focus area was setting up the platform and studying early-stage organoid development. Before joining Pandorum, she was last working with IGBMC Strasbourg as a Postdoc Fellow.

Anbalagan Jaganathan

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Anbalagan Jaganathan

Anbalagan (Anbu) is a Senior Research Scientist working at the MBC BioLabs, San Carlos, CA office of Pandorum. He earned a Ph.D. in Endocrinology from University of Madras. Before joining Pandorum, Anbu had been working with The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (ISMMS), NY, USA as a Research Instructor on T cell biology & Cancer biology and SARS CoV2.

Anil Kumar

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Anil Kumar

Anil is a Senior Research Scientist working at the MBC BioLabs, CA office of Pandorum. He earned a Ph.D. in Immunology from All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi.
Before joining Pandorum, Anil had been working as Research Specialist at MGH, Harvard Medical School, USA where he developed a cell line model to study drug resistance development.

Anupriya Mehra

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Anupriya Mehra

As a Research Scientist, Anupriya is part of the Organoid team at Pandorum. Anupriya earned a Ph.D. in Molecular & Cellular Biology from University of Caen, France where she was also a Marie Curie ITN Fellow. Before joining Pandorum, her last engagement was with University of Artois, Arras, France as a Postdoctoral fellow.

Bharti Sangwan

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Bharti Sangwan

Bharti is an Assistant Research Scientist- Optometry at Pandorum. She did her graduation from MD University, Rohtak Haryana and Masters in Chemistry from Chaudhary Bansilal University, Haryana. Bharti has undergone training at LJ Eye Institute, Ambala and has experience of working with patients for over 3 years.

Dilip Menon

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Dilip Menon

Dilip is an Associate Research Scientist within the Cellular Engineering team at Pandorum. He earned a PhD. degree in Biology from CSIR-Institute of Genomics and Integrative Dilip has expertise working at the interface of host pathogen interactions, confocal microscopy and image analysis

Dipjit Basak

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Dipjit Basak

Dipjit is an Associate Research Scientist within the Cellular Engineering team at Pandorum. He earned an MSc. degree in Biotechnology from the St. Xavier’s College, University of Calcutta. Before joining Pandorum, Dipjit had been working as a Project Assistant at National Institute of Biomedical Genomics, Kalyani, focusing on the cell and molecular biology aspects of Covid-19.

Geethika R

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Geethika R

Geethika is an Assistant Manager – Lab Operations at Pandorum. She earned an MSc. in Microbial Gene Technology from Madurai Kamaraj University. Before joining Pandorum, she had been working with Biofi as a Microbiologist. Geethika has expertise in Upstream processing in fermentation, In-house product efficiency testing, documentation, and Inventory management.

Imrankhan Pathan

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Imrankhan Pathan

Imran works as an Associate Research Scientist with Pandorum. He holds an M.Sc. in Biotechnology from North Maharashtra University, Jalgaon. Before joining Pandorum, Imran had been working with a biotech startup in Pune. His expertise is in development of allogenic stem cells & stem cell-derived products as regenerative medicine for wound care management.

Jyoti Rajput

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Jyoti Rajput

Jyoti Rajput is an Assistant Research Scientist- Optometry at Pandorum. She earned an M.Sc. in Optometry from Himalayan University and completed a Fellowship in optometry from Dr. Shroff’s Charity Eye Hospital (SCEH), Delhi. She has experience of working with patients for over 5 years.

Kamalnath

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Kamalnath

As an Associate Research Scientist, Kamalnath works in developing scaffolds using biomaterials that mimic the cellular microenvironment and characterizing them mechanically and biologically. Earlier, he had worked as Project Associate at Laboratory of Molecular cell biology, IIT Madras, to characterize the large molecular nucleolar GTPases functionally by studying their protein expression profile through Proteomics.

Kartik Goel

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Kartik Goel

Kartik is an Associate Research Scientist at Pandorum. He earned an MSc. degree in Marine Biotechnology from Goa University.

M Krishnaraju

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M Krishnaraju

Krishna is a Research Associate at Pandorum USA, and working primarily at the Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago under the supervision of Dr. Satish Nadig. He earned a Ph.D. in Biotechnology from Dr. M.G.R. Educational & Research Institute, Chennai. Before joining Pandorum, Krishna had been working as a Postdoctoral Research Associate with University of Illinois, Chicago focusing on cell biology, immunology and virology.

Mehak Sapra

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Mehak Sapra

Mehak is a Research Scientist at Pandorum. She earned a Ph.D. in Immunology and Stem Cell Biology from PGIMER, Chandigarh, where her focus area was delineating the potential of human umbilical cord tissue derived mesenchymal stem cells in treatment of rheumatoid arthritis. Before joining Pandorum, she had been associated with CSIR-IGIB as a Senior Project Associate.

Monika Chouhan

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Monika Chouhan

Monika is working as a Clinical Coordinator at Pandorum, deputed at the SCEH, Delhi. She pursued a Certified Ophthalmic Paramedics (COP) course from SCEH after earning a BA degree from the University of Delhi.

Mujib Ullah

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Mujib Ullah

Mujib is a Senior Research Scientist working at the MBC BioLabs, San Carlos, CA office of Pandorum. Mujib earned a PhD in Regenerative Medicine from Freie Universität Berlin. Before joining Pandorum, he had been working with the Stanford University School of Medicine. Mujib’s expertise is in smart tissue engineering, exosome bioengineering and innovative technologies for rejuvenation of damaged/diseased tissues in 3D platform.

Namit Dey

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Namit Dey

Namit, Associate Research Scientist, works on the Biomaterials platform at Pandorum, to facilitate functional tissue engineering. He holds a Master’s Degree from University of Delhi, and about to complete a PhD in Biotechnology from Delhi Technological University. Namit had earlier worked with DRDO INMAS, CSIR-IGIB and IIT-Guwahati in various research capacities.

Nisha P R

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Nisha P R

Research Scientist, involved in generation of 3D microtissues (single-component & multi-component) for studying hepatotoxicity, drug screening and disease modeling (NASH). Earlier, she worked at JNCASR Bangalore, wherein she was involved in design and development of artificial retinal prosthesis using optoelectronic polymer devices. Pursed MTech in Medical Nanotechnology from SASTRA University, Tamilnadu.

Parinita Agrawal

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Parinita Agrawal

Senior Research Scientist, involved in developing biosynthetic options for scarless healing of cornea and 3D-tissues for transplant. Parinita earned a Ph.D. in tissue engineering and regenerative medicine from National Institute of Technology, Rourkela. She has expertise in scaffold fabrication techniques, characterization and isolation of stem cells from human tissues.

Phani Kiran Karra

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Phani Kiran Karra

As the Director of Finance, Phani handles the operational and strategic finance aspects of the company and is actively involved in cross-functional collaborative projects at Pandorum. Phani is a Chartered and Cost Accountant and has extensive experience in high growth start-ups. Prior to Pandorum, Phani spearheaded the finance vertical at Dailyhunt, a unicorn in the vernacular content space.

Rakesh Dey

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Rakesh Dey

Rakesh is a Research Scientist at Pandorum, working in Bioinformatics. Rakesh earned a Ph.D. from CSIR-IGIB, New Delhi, where he studied the role of miRNA and host transcriptome in HIV-1 positive individuals with the varied rate of disease progression. He has three and half years of postdoc experience from InStem, Bangalore before joining Pandorum.

Ravi Chandra

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Ravi Chandra

As Senior Manager – Finance & Accounts, Ravi handles day to day finance, accounts and compliances activities of Pandorum. Ravi holds a Bachelor’s degree in Commerce with more than 15 years of experience in accounts, finance and audit with several companies across industries.

Ravikiran Vedururu

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Ravikiran Vedururu

As the Head of Operations, Ravi leads the strategic operations at Pandorum, establishing and maintaining working relationships with external collaborators and ensuring smooth functioning and conduct of projects across multiple sites. He brings close to 12 years of experience in Genomics-assay design and R&D. He completed his PhD in the field of Molecular Virology and Genomics at RMIT University, Melbourne and CSIRO-Australian Animal Health Lab, Geelong, both in Australia.

Rita Das Mahapatra

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Rita Das Mahapatra

Rita is a Research Scientist in the Biomaterials team at Pandorum. She earned a PhD in Chemistry from Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur. Before joining Pandorum, she had been working as a Postdoctoral Fellow at University of Florida, USA where her focus areas included development of tissue-mimicking hydrogels for various applications ranging from cancer treatment to nerve repair.

Ritu Raj

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Ritu Raj

Research Scientist involved in developing nanoscale therapeutics systems. Ritu Raj earned a PhD in Life Science from the National Institute of Technology, Rourkela. His previous experience includes the Erasmus Mundus fellowship at Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon, Portugal and Research Scientist position at Mazumdar Shaw Medical Foundation, Bangalore, India.

Sarabjit Kumar

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Sarabjit Kumar

Sarabjit has been associated with Pandorum since 2018 as a Lab Assistant, looking into day-to-day functioning of the labs. He hails from Assam.

Sarath Babu Nukala

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Sarath Babu Nukala

Sarath is a Research Associate at Pandorum USA, and working primarily at the Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago under the supervision of Dr. Satish Nadig. He earned a PhD in Biotechnology from University of Barcelona, Spain and in Pharmaceutical Sciences from University of Milan, Italy. Before joining Pandorum, Sarath had been working as a Postdoctoral Research Associate at University of Illinois at Chicago, USA.

Sekar Harikrishnan

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Sekar Harikrishnan

Hari is the Manager – Operations at Pandorum. He earned a PhD in Chemical Engineering from Curtin University, Perth, Australia and worked in multiple projects in Singapore and Australia on design and development of biomedical devices, Microfluidic for lab-on-a-chip systems, drug nano formulation technologies, etc. At Pandorum, Hari looks after the operations of the company including managing laboratories.

Shivani Mahapatra

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Shivani Mahapatra

Shivani Mahapatra joined Pandorum as an Executive – Administration. She earned a Master’s degree in English from the Gangadhar Meher University, Sambalpur. Shivani works on various HR and administrative activities of the company.

Subia Bano

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Subia Bano

Subia is a Research Scientist at Pandorum, involved in the development of Biomaterial matrices for tissue engineering applications. Subia earned a PhD in Biotechnology from IIT Kharagpur. She did her Post Doctorate from University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio-Finland, where she worked on Peptide mediated gene delivery for differentiated retinal cell lines. She also worked at Elvesys Microfluidic Innovation Centre, Paris as a Marie Curie Individual Fellow.

Suvro Kanti Chowdhury

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Suvro Kanti Chowdhury

Suvro, an Associate Research Scientist, works closely with the Biomaterials and Cornea team at Pandorum to cater to their scientific needs. His qualifications, B.E. (Biotechnology), M.Sc. (Regenerative Medicine), Fellowship (Regenerative Medicine and Translational Science) and prior experience in the Biomaterial and Tissue Engineering field makes him a self-motivated individual in the field of translational research.

Utkarsh Bhutani

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Utkarsh Bhutani

As a Research Scientist working on the Biomaterials platform at Pandorum, Utkarsh has expertise in biodegradable polymers, hydrogels and drug delivery. He earned a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Hyderabad. Before joining Pandorum Utkarsh carried out postdoctoral research at InStem, Bangalore.

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