PROCELL BIOLOGICS - Key Persons
Dr. Ranadheer has 20+ years of experience in the academic and industrial sides of the life sciences industry. His experience includes recombinant therapeutic proteins expression in E.coli, Yeast and Mammalian systems.
During his stint at Shantha Biotechnics, he performed E.coli & Yeast clone development for recombinant therapeutic proteins expression. He worked as a Postdoctoral Research Associate at University of Illinois (UIC) at Chicago, studying cell signaling pathways in cancers. He also served as a Postdoctoral Research Associate at ICRISAT, where he worked on the elucidation of mechanism behind CMS in pigeon pea that was filed for US patent, and on CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing projects in plant systems. He successfully led the Molecular biology team where RT-PCR based method verifications/validations were performed as per ISO (IEC) 17025 guidelines.
Dr. Ranadheer earned his doctorate from the Dept. of Genetics, Osmania University, Hyderabad.
Job Titles:
- Assistant General Manager
Mahesh has worked extensively in developing quality systems at product development, preclinical and clinical stages for biosimilar products. He has established the quality systems for vendor management, quality management, process validation, method validation, equipment qualification and product distribution as per the regulatory requirements.
Mahesh has handled regulatory audits such as WHO, ANVISA, Russia, PICS member countries and USFDA consultant audit. Mahesh has completed his Masters in Microbiology from Bangalore University, India.
Akkina Srinivas Chowdary, an MBA, is the Director of Venkateshwara Minerals since 2006. He has successfully led the company's growth and expansion into new areas - evolving from mining, logistics and financial investments into futuristic, new age businesses like biologics. Procell Biologics leverages his vision and expertise to tap into new markets and revenue streams. Passionate about sports and grooming talent, he has helped provide sports facilities and serves as the President of the Football Association in his district.
An MBA from Cardiff University, UK, he is a fast learner and a dynamic go-getter . A firm believer in teamwork, thanks to a continuing passion for sports, Suveerji has all the hallmarks of emerging as an effective leader - vision, empathy, communication skills, and sound decision-making ability.
His exposure to a global environment has instilled a feel for international business and provided the necessary foundation that would enable him to contribute to the growth and development of the company in the future.
Job Titles:
- General Manager - Process
Venkat comes with over 23 years of Process Development experience in Recombinant Protein and Recombinant Vaccine production. He has significant experience in leading process development and scaleup of recombinant protein expression in E. coli and Yeast. He brings to the table remarkable expertise in process development, demonstration of biosimilars at manufacturing scale, coordinating with scaleup team for successful technology transfer from R&D scale to manufacturing scale (2KL and 15KL) for material generation for clinical trials in the cGMP environment.
He has years of experience in driving the product lifecycle of biosimilar molecules, and has successfully led process development and technology transfer, proven to be robust and commercially viable. He was a crucial member of the team that successfully developed Streptokinase and enabled tech transfer to the manufacturing team during his stint at Shantha Biotech, and Insulin analogues in Wockhardt Research Centre.
Venkat has a Post-graduate degreein Microbiology from SRTM University, India.