Abinaya Nathan

Medical Writer & Portfolio Manager, Kite Pharma @Gilead Sciences

San Francisco, CA, US

Research Portfolio Management (RPM):• Provide PM support to cross-functional, high-achieving groups to promote innovation and drug discovery in the cell therapy space by developing integrated project plans to identify interdependencies, critical path activities, key milestones, and prioritizations.• Build and sustain strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders to provide operational efficiency in preclinical, clinical, and translational medicine programs.• Ensures success for programs through various stages of drug discovery by developing integrated project plans to identify interdependencies, critical path activities, key milestones, deliverables, risk assessment/ mitigation.• Manage project plans and timelines for projects in Translational Medicine, including but not limited to sponsored research collaborations, strategic initiatives, corporate goals, and method/technology development.Regulatory Medical Writing:• Authors a wide variety of Regulatory documents of all types and complexities, such as Nonclinical study reports, Nonclinical Summaries, Clinical Protocol, Briefing Book, Investigators Brochure, CTD summaries/overviews, and regulatory responses for Lymphoma, Multiple Myeloma, and Autoimmune Diseases.• Lead the development of Scientific documents, such as abstracts, White papers, Analysis Reports, Manuscripts, within the CAR-T space.• Guide authoring teams through document preparation, review, and approval to deliver high quality documents, including development and management of timelines.• Summarizing quarterly competitive intelligence briefs, translational reports aligning with corporate KPIs.

Newcastle University

Master of Science (M.Sc.), Medical Genetics

Friedrich Schiller University Jena

Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Molecular Biology

SRM IST Chennai

Bachelor's degree, Genetic Engineering