Upma Sharma, Ph.d.

Biography

Upma Sharma is Director of Research and Development. Dr. Sharma leads product development for Arsenal Medical’s novel foam-based technology platform for treatment of non-compressible hemorrhage, directing a core team through ideation and filing of intellectual property, proof of concept and pre-clinical testing, and clinical system design. Under Dr. Sharma’s scientific leadership, the company gained significant funding from DARPA/ARO for development of this hemorrhage control system. Prior to Arsenal, Dr. Sharma served as a core team member at 480 Biomedical, advancing the company’s innovative biodegradable vascular scaffold from concept to pre-clinical proof-of-concept. Dr. Sharma was responsible for materials selection and drug formulation efforts for the scaffold. Dr. Sharma earned a Ph.D. from Princeton University in Chemical Engineering and a B.S.E. with Honors from Purdue University. During a post-doctoral fellowship in Bioengineering at Rice University, Dr. Sharma was awarded a NIH Training Grant in Nanobiology. Dr. Sharma has authored 12 peer-reviewed scientific publications and is an inventor on 10 issued or pending patents. Upma Sharma is Director of Research and Development. Dr. Sharma leads product development for Arsenal Medical’s novel foam-based technology platform for treatment of non-compressible hemorrhage, directing a core team through ideation and filing of intellectual property, proof of concept and pre-clinical testing, and clinical system design. Under Dr. Sharma’s scientific leadership, the company gained significant funding from DARPA/ARO for development of this hemorrhage control system. Prior to Arsenal, Dr. Sharma served as a core team member at 480 Biomedical, advancing the company’s innovative biodegradable vascular scaffold from concept to pre-clinical proof-of-concept. Dr. Sharma was responsible for materials selection and drug formulation efforts for the scaffold. Dr. Sharma earned a Ph.D. from Princeton University in Chemical Engineering and a B.S.E. with Honors from Purdue University. During a post-doctoral fellowship in Bioengineering at Rice University, Dr. Sharma was awarded a NIH Training Grant in Nanobiology. Dr. Sharma has authored 12 peer-reviewed scientific publications and is an inventor on 10 issued or pending patents.

Research Interest

Business & Managment