OUR TEAM

Dr. Shantaram Sahadu Kothavale
Technical Director

Dr. Viraj Hanumantrao Mankar
Technical Director

Dr. Sujeet Pawar
Technical Director
Prior to joining EPFL ( École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) in Switzerland, Dr. Sujeet Pawar was senior scientist (Bioduro-sundia, Taipei, Taiwan) and he was responsible for the development and validation of custom-made compounds. Dr. Sujeet spent his over 11-year career as a synthetic chemist in the antiviral therapeutics. He has significant experience in the synthetic carbohydrate-based vaccine design and in the discovery of carbohydrate-based epitopes (biomarkers) by mass spectrometry. Currently he is focused on developing broad spectrum antivirals and polymer materials for the controlled drug release. He is also contributing to the pre-clinical development of an antiviral against H1N1. Dr. Sujeet holds a PhD from the Academia Sinica (Taiwan) in Chemical Biology.