Mr. CSN Murthy began his career with ICICI Ventures, India’s first Venture Capital fund. He was subsequently a management consultant to the Pharma and Chemical sectors. Later, he worked in the Business Development and General Management functions in Pharmaceutical companies, including as the Chief Operating Officer of Gland Pharma Ltd. CSN holds a Bachelors degree in Chemical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Madras and an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Bangalore.
Prior to Aurigene, Dr. Koneripalli was with the Tata Group – most recently with Rallis India Ltd (A Tata Enterprise) as Executive Vice-President heading the R&D, Business Development and Quality functions, and with Tata Advanced Materials Ltd as the Vice President and Head of the Aerospace Division. Prior to his stint with the Tata Group, Nagraj was with 3M Company in St. Paul USA in various technical, marketing and business leadership roles in the Specialty Chemicals and Electronics materials sectors. Nagraj holds a B. Tech degree in Chemical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Madras, and Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis and an MBA from the Booth School of Business, University of Chicago, Chicago.
Dr. Ramachandra received his PhD from University of Idaho, USA and was a Postdoctoral fellow at DuPont Experimental Station and University of Kansas Medical Centre, Kansas City, USA. He has worked on various aspects of drug discovery at the National Institute of Health, USA and Schering-Plough, USA before joining Aurigene. He has coauthored 47 publications and six granted patents.
Dr. Pandit completed his BSc from St.Stephen’s College, Delhi and received his PhD from State University of New York, Buffalo. He has over 15 years of Medicinal Chemistry and Process research experience in the Industry, in India and Canada. He currently holds 10 patents, including one for a compound currently in Phase I/II clinical trials.
Dr. Sunil Kumar received his PhD from University of Kerala, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala. Specialized in Pharmaceutical Toxicology with more than 15 years of professional experience in Drug Discovery and development. Track record of leading the planning, execution and authoring the pre-clinical safety studies for multiple successful Investigational New drug applications in different therapeutic areas.
Dr. Nanduri received his PhD from Sri Sathya Sai University, India. He has over 15 years of Medicinal Chemistry and Discovery expertise, having worked in the areas of oncology, cardiovascular & metabolic disorders at Dr Reddy’s Research Foundation before joining Aurigene. He has a number of International Patents and Publications to his credit.
Dr. Paradkar received his doctorate degree in Medicinal Chemistry from the University of Arizona and Post-Doctoral training from the University of Kansas, with Professor Gary Grunewald. Vidyadhar has over 15 years of industrial drug discovery experience in the United States. Most recently, he was a Senior Group Leader at Pharmacopeia, Inc. where he managed a variety of internal and collaborative discovery programs in GPCR and kinases. He has over 25 patents and publications and is one of the inventors of Dinaciclib, a CDK inhibitor which is in phase II clinical trials for breast cancer, lung cancer, and melanoma.
Mr. Ramesh Murthy is a Chartered Accountant (CA) and Cost and Works Accountant (ICWA). He has worked in senior positions in Finance and Accounting across different industries including Life Sciences for more than 20 years. He has completed AMP from IIM, Bangalore. Before joining Aurigene he was member of the senior management team at ReaMetrix, where he was heading Finance and Administrative functions before joining Aurigene.
Mr. Baba is the Head of Operations and HR at Aurigene. He has over 25 years of extensive experience in Insurance Domain and Human Resource Management. He is a Fellow of the Insurance Institute of India and a Professional from the Academy of HRD. Before joining Aurigene he was Asst Vice President – HR Talent Management Group and Ethics Counselors Office at Mahindra Satyam.