Prasad Jaladi, MS.

Prasad Jaladi has international experience in Pharmaceutical industry and IT. Mr. Jaladi has experience in QA, R&D and consulting. He led team to obtain US FDA approval for Pharmaceutical Companies in India. He has experience in writing Specifications, Standard Operating Procedures, preparation of DMF, Calibration of Manufacturing & Analytical equipment, Stability Tests and compilation of Data for US FDA Approvals. In information technology, Mr. Jaladi has good focus on ERP, CRM and e-business technologies. Mr. Jaladi supported IT companies by offering consulting services. Some of the companies are among the best 100 companies in US. Mr. Jaladi obtained training in Biotechnology and Bioinformatics from University of California and Project Management from SJSU, CA. Mr. Jaladi is member to scientific and professional organizations.

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Bala Manian, Ph.D.

Dr. Bala Manian is a serial entrepreneur and a well known scientist based at Silicon valley, CA USA. Dr. Bala Manian recently founded Reametrix, Inc., having operations at San Carlos, CA, USA and Banglore, India. ReaMetrix funds product development on various technology platforms in return for a share of the product revenues. ReaMetrix develops applications on existing, proven platforms. By selecting appropriate opportunities, generates proprietary reagent products for sale to the research community. ReaMetrix has manufacturing capacity in India leveraging a global partnership. Dr. Manian holds more than 30 patents, many of which have resulted in successful commercial products. Additionally, Dr. Manian has authored more than 35 scientific publications. He has a B.S. in Physics from the University of Madras, an M.S in Applied Optics from the University of Rochester, and a PhD in Mechanical Engineering from Purdue University. He was a faculty member at the University of Rochester's Institute of Optics. Dr. Manian founded Lumisys and Molecular Dynamics. Both Lumisys (LUMI) and Molecular Dynamics (MDYN) went public on the NASDAQ before their acquisition by Eastman Kodak and Amersham Pharmacia Biotech and then by GE respectively. Dr. Manian is involved with Galileo Laboratories, Surromed, Q DOT Corporation, and Entigen. He was the founder-chairman of Biometric Imaging Inc, which was acquired by medical device giant Becton Dickinson & Co. Prior to founding Biometric Imaging, Dr. Manian founded Digital Optics Corp, an optical instrumentation and systems development company that was acquired by Matrix Corp. An expert in the design of electro-optical systems. Dr. Manian has been recognized by the award of an "Academy Certificate" from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for inventing the special effects technology used in movies like "Return of the Jedi" and the Indiana Jones Trilogy. The technology developed by Bala Manian, David DiFrancesco and Thomas Noggle, at Digital Optics Corp., and transferred to Lucas film Ltd. in 1983, allowed filmmakers to insert special effects into movies using computerized digital imaging. This was a considerable improvement over existing technology, which involved an expensive and painstaking procedure whereby two different sets of images, almost two movies, had to be created and combined to achieve the same special effects.

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Bobba Venkatadri, M.Pharm.

Mr. Bobba Venkatadri is President and CEO of Trans-India Aquisition Corporation. He is President, Napo India Private Limited. He has over 30 years of U.S and international senior executive leadership in bio-pharma industry. He was Senior Vice President, Operations in Aradigm Corpotation. Mr. Bobba was Executive Vice President of Operations for Diosynth RTP, Inc. a division of Akzo Nobel, a manufacturer of recombinant proteins. Prior to that Bobba served as Chief Executive Officer of Molecular Biosystems, Inc., Executive Vice President of Centocor, President of Warner-Lambert Indonesia and Vice President, U.S. Operations of Parke-Davis.

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Mikael Kubista Ph. D.

Dr. Mikael Kubista is professor at Chalmers University in Sweden and head of R&D at the TATAA Biocenter. He was among the pioneers working with real-time PCR technology and contributed by developing the LightUp probes used in infectious disease testing and the BEBO dyes, which are alternatives to SYBR Green for non-specific detection. He also pioneered the field of single cell expression profiling, which was highlighted in Nature Reviews of Genetics. Recently Dr. Kubista published the review: The Real-time PCR Reaction in Molecular Aspects of Medicine. Dr. Kubista is scientific advisor to several companies developing real-time PCR technology and applications based on real-time PCR. In 2001 Dr. Kubista founded the TATAA Biocenters, which today are the leading providers of real-time PCR services in Scandinavia and Central Europe.

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Narayan R Raju, Ph.D.

Dr. Narayan Raju holds citizenship of Fiji and United States. He has done B.Sc., Biological Science from Osmania University, India in 1971 and B.V.Sc (DVM)., Veterinary Sciences from Andhra Agricultural University, India in 1976. He obtained M.V.S., Veterinary Pathology, Melbourne University, Australia, 1981, Pathology Residency, Michigan State University in1985 and Ph.D., Veterinary Pathology, Michigan State University in1987. Dr. Raju’s currently holding responsibility as Director, Pathology Research Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, Consultant to World Health Organization, Director to Pathology Research Laboratory, Inc., and English Editor to Korean Veterinary Journal. Dr. Raju has obtained honours and awards like Indian Government Scholarship in 1968, Phi Zeta - Food and Agriculture Organization Fellowship in 1979, The Upjohn Company Post?doctoral Fellowship in 1985, Recipient of the C. L. Davis Foundation Scholarship in Veterinary Pathology in 1987, Pruess Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship in 1987 and from 1997 to till date as Hon Consul, Consulate of Fiji, San Francisco, California, USA.

Dr. Raju’s has great experience being Veterinary/Technical Officer Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory, Ministry of Agriculture, Koronivia Research Station, Fiji, Veterinary Pathologist Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory, Koronivia, Nausori, Fiji, Veterinary Pathology Resident/Instructor, Department of Pathology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, Veterinary Pathologist (Specialist) Animal Health Diagnostic Laboratory, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, Toxicologic and Experimental Pathologist Environmental Health Laboratory, Monsanto Agricultural Company, St. Louis, Missouri, Director Neuropathology/Neuroroxicology Program, SRI (Stanford Research Institute), Menlo Park, California, Principal, Experimental and Toxicologic Pathology Consultants, South San Francisco, CA and President, Park Bio- Sciences, Inc.

Dr. Raju holds speciality certification in Diplomate, American College of Veterinary Pathologists (Anatomic) and Certificate of Proficiency in Transmission Electron Microscopy (Center of Electron Optics, Michigan State University).

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M.W. Pandit, Ph.D.

Dr. Madhusudan W. Pandit is a scientist by profession, Worked with scientific institutions such as NCL, Pune, RRL, IICT and CCMB, Hyderabad and NAL, Banglore. Dr. Pandit helped establishing the Centre for DNA fingerprinting and Diagnostics(CDFD), an autonomous center of the Department of Biotechnology, Govt. of India. At Present Dr. Pandit working as a consultant to the Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB) on a project " Laboratory for the conservation of Endangered Species(LaCONES). Dr. Pandit helping CCMB to upgrade and maintain the bioinformatics facility at CCMB including networks such as internet and intranet.

Dr. Pandit involved in establishing the Distributed Information Centre at CCMB as a part of Biotechnology Information System. Involved in development of Informatics center at CCMB to current level. Served as member of the task force for bioingormatics for many years and his research contributions using bioinformatic tools are reflected in several publications. Dr. Pandit is responsible in establishing EMBnet node of India, a computer network which is established by 35 countries at Hyderabad. Served as nodal manager of EMBnet for a couple of years.

P.N. Avdhani, Ph.D.

Dr. Avadhani has about 38 years of Research Experience mostly at the National University of Singapore. Worked in several institutions for short periods in different parts of the world under sabbatical visiting appointments and study visits on a regular basis. The se include Universities and research institutions in the UK, the USA, France, Germany and Australia.

Dr. Avadhani Supervised several Honours, Masters and Doctoral theses, Published about 70 papers in scientific journals and edited books, Attended many International conferences. He also worked as Visiting Professor at Andhra Pradesh Agricultural University, India. Currently he is working as a principal partner of a consultancy under the name of Dhani & Associates. He worked as a consultant to several institutions and organizations both during service and retirement for specific projects as well as general consultancy in a wide rage of fields including biology, management and IT.

Babu R Satram, Ph.D.

Satram R. Babu, is offering consulting services as Global Process and validation manager to Roche Pharmaceuticals, Nutley, New Jercy. He has worked as validation consultant in Pfizer, USA. He has worked extensively on QA and validation methods. Dr. Satram has experience as Research Scientist, Pharmcokinetics researcher, Quality control manager, Global Process coordinator, Sr. Validation Specialist, Audit Engineer, Business Analyst and Quality Assurance manager, 21 CFR Part 11 expert. He has vast experience on GxP regulations and 21 CFR Part 11 assessment. Dr. Babu has excellent experience in writing documentations for computer systems validation lifecycle, to comply with FDA regulations, particularly 21CFR, Part 11, includes Installation Qualification (IQ) specification, Operation Qualification (OQ)Specification, Performance Qualification (PQ) Specification. software development life cycle testing (SDLC)

Dr. Satram has masters in science and did Ph.D in toxicology from S. V. University, India. He worked as Post doctoral fellow at Southern Illinois University Springfield, IL, on Alzimers disease and its prevention. He worked as assistant professor in Pharmacology and toxicology division at St. Louis university doing research on Bladder cancer and metabolic studies. He has worked as Associate professor at the same university discovering metabolic pathways of carcinogens. He has developed several methods to be used for invitro techniques. Dr. Satram has about 30 papers published in scientific journals and attended many International conferences.

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Appa Rao Podile, Ph.D.

Dr. Appa Rao Podile has obtained M. Sc(Botany) and PHD (Botany) from Sardar Patel University in 1983 and 1986 respectively. Dr. Podile is serving as Reader, Department of Plant Sciences in School of Life Sciences, at University of Hyderabad from Jan 1999. Dr. Podile has 34 research publications from 1985. Dr. Podile attended many national and international conferences.

Dr. Podile was honoured with awards like Rajiv Goyal Science Foundation's Young Scientist Award in Agriculture and Fellow of Indian Phytopathological Society, New Delhi in 1998. Dr. Podile has teaching experience in Courses like Biochemical Plant Pathology, Microbiology, Microbial Biotechnology to M.Sc., and M.Phil. students . He also taught Industrial Microbiology to the M.Tech. Biotechnology students of the Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, India as guest faculty

Dr. Podile experience covers includuing Visiting Scientist, Institute of Molecular Biology, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China, Post Doctoral Fellow, National Science Council, Taiwan at Institute of Botany, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China, on "Molecular mechanisms of harpin-induced plant hypersensitive response, Young Scientist Project Investigator, sponsored by the Department of Science and Technology, Government of India on Plant Growth Promoting Rhizobacteria (PGPR) of cotton and groundnut, Research Associate (CSIR) on "Beneficial microbial flora of cotton, wheat and groundnut rhizosphere with special reference to biological protection of roots, Senior Research Fellow (CSIR) on Interaction of the microbial flora of infection court with reference to cotton and rice rhizospheres, Junior Research Fellow (UGC) on Biochemical aspects of plant wilts.

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