Dr. Narendra Chirmule

Biography

 Narendra is the Sr. Vice President & Head of Research and Development at Biocon. With over 23 years of experience in Immunology, he has held senior leadership positions at Amgen and Merck, in the US, in the departments of Clinical Immunology overseeing drug development in regulated laboratories. He is an expert in the area of immune responses to biologics and vaccines. Narendra completed his post-doctoral training at Cornell University Medical College, New York and has teaching and research experience as Assistant Director at the Human Gene Therapy Group of University of Pennsylvania. He is an advisor to the Filovirus consortium and a reviewer on the HIV vaccine study section for the National Institutes of Health. He is also an academician conducting Biotech educational seminars and has published extensively (more than 100) on the topics of immunogenicity prediction and assessment, predictive toxicology and quality-by-design. Narendra is a MS (Zoology, Animal Physiology) and Ph.D.in Applied Biology from the University of Mumbai  

Research Interest

 Narendra is the Sr. Vice President & Head of Research and Development at Biocon. With over 23 years of experience in Immunology, he has held senior leadership positions at Amgen and Merck, in the US, in the departments of Clinical Immunology overseeing drug development in regulated laboratories. He is an expert in the area of immune responses to biologics and vaccines. Narendra completed his post-doctoral training at Cornell University Medical College, New York and has teaching and research experience as Assistant Director at the Human Gene Therapy Group of University of Pennsylvania. He is an advisor to the Filovirus consortium and a reviewer on the HIV vaccine study section for the National Institutes of Health. He is also an academician conducting Biotech educational seminars and has published extensively (more than 100) on the topics of immunogenicity prediction and assessment, predictive toxicology and quality-by-design. Narendra is a MS (Zoology, Animal Physiology) and Ph.D.in Applied Biology from the University of Mumbai