Neeraj Padmanabhan

✦ Assisted in driving strategic agenda, expediting drug development, and delivering enhanced testing credited with reversing course of disease progression in late-stage ALS patient including restoration of damaged muscle. ✦ Inventor of a patented artificial intelligence guided platform to optimize immunosuppressant dosing for use in organ transplant surgeries and post-transplant care. ✦ Developed artificial intelligence programs to perform predictive modeling of personalized combination therapy treatments for 20 disease states, improving success rates 25% compared to conventional physician treatments. ✦ Led multinational group of US and Taiwanese researchers to develop AI-guided heart transplant software and resultant procedures that increased survival rate by 45% compared to current procedures. Conducted clinical trials working directly with surgeons treating patients under high-stress operating room conditions. ✦ Authored NIH grant proposals raising over $450K to fund clinical research. Experience takeaways: I enjoyed patient interaction and working alongside biotech and medical professionals. I liked being called upon to solve unique challenges placed before me.

✦ Oversaw implementation of cheminformatics programs to isolate prospective drug candidates and reduce discovery costs ✦ Developed enhanced workflows that integrated chemoinformatics, inventory, and data management technologies. ✦ Reduced data collection time by 1 hour by integrating inventory and data management technologies into existing workflows, streamlining and accelerating drug discovery process. ✦ Enabled implementation of new workflows by establishing key relationships and strategically balancing stakeholder interests across interdisciplinary departments involved in drug development. Experience takeaways: The multidisciplinary role I had was a great way to learn the interconnectedness of all departments and stakeholders involved in drug development pipeline to ensure business needs were met.

✦ Contributed to 25% of state population receiving COVID-19 vaccinations during 4-month accelerated project timeline as part of emergency response team.

I was responsible for coordination between the AIChE organization and local chapters in southern New England, ensuring the allocation of resources to meet the needs of individual AIChE student chapters and to sustain their growth.