Dr. Markandeya Gorantla

Biography

 Dr. Markandeya is Chairman and Managing Director of the company and oversees business development, Production and research and development. He has varied experience in pre-clinical and clinical research for the past 10 years at EPR Pharma and Onconova Therapeutics Inc. USA. He was involved in coordinating projects for NCE library synthesis wherein he was instrumental in development of more than 3000 new chemical entities for drug discovery program. He was also involved in manufacturing of Active Pharmaceutical ingredients of clinical trial molecules. He founded ATGC biosolutions in the year 2005 and his work mainly focused on developing semiochemical intermediates for large scale synthesis of Pheromones. In the year 2011 he incorporated ATGC Biotech Pvt. Ltd. for commercializing the research products developed at ATGC Biosolutions as a promoter. Previously Dr. Markandeya has a decade long research experience in high throughput DNA sequencing, Gene Arrays and molecular biology. Also, he is well versed with high-throughput genome technologies. He worked under Rockefeller Foundation Drought Program and developed allele sharing maps of Indian rice cultivars through SNP analysis for drought tolerance. Previously, he has 3 years of Industrial experience in bio-process technologies and holds a M. Tech degree in the field. He is well versed with isolation, characterization of microbial organisms for their beneficial nature.

Research Interest

 Business Management, Molecular Biology, Gene Arrays