PRINCIPAL RESEARCH SCIENTIST

Sree’s vivid 25-year career spans research areas of STEM, Portfolio Management, Entrepreneurship, Policy-Making, and Implementation for non-for-profit organizations connects industry, startups, and academia with the government organizations. Currently, he passionately promotes scientific entrepreneurship from young to seasoned researchers, students, and faculty to take up innovations in life sciences ranging from agriculture, biotechnology, healthcare, IT, and pharma/healthcare sectors. He also actively promotes IP/Technology-Transfer of assets of life sciences. As an entrepreneur, he co-founded Theraxel Discoveries, and later founded INDRAS Pvt. Ltd. (www.indras.in) that consults, contracts, and collaborates on drug design aspects with researchers of industry and academia. His continued passion lies in research ranging from drug design and discovery (currently focusing on therapeutic mitigation of COVID-19, and solid tumors in Oncology. For his innovative technologies and research utilized by wide-ranging researchers at Ranbaxy, he is the recipient of the Global APPRECIATE award by Ranbaxy for his outstanding contributions in R&D data digitization. He also established, promoted, and made a self-sustenance scenario of the ASPIRE-BioNEST, the life sciences incubator of UoH, recognized as the “Best Emerging Bio-incubator” among all BioNESTs of India. He published about 25-peer reviewed articles in international journals, gave numerous lectures at domestic and international conferences.