Saritha Chakilam
Ensuring data integrity and quality is essential to unlock the full potential of omics datasets, unveiling insights into disease mechanisms and drug discovery.
- Role
- Principal Scientific Manager Bioinformatics Team Lead Data Asset Creation at Excelra
- Location
- Hyderabad, TG, IN
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Saritha Chakilam
A seasoned subject matter expert in life sciences with multiple years of research and industrial experience in the field of drug discovery. I completed my PhD in cancer biology at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany, followed by a brief postdoctoral experience at IICT, Hyderabad, India. With over 14 years of experience in academic and industrial research, including 9+ years in the industry at Excelra. I specialize in providing data-driven solutions to Pharma and Biotech companies. Seeking new opportunities to leverage my skills in a dynamic and collaborative environment.Competencies: High-end omics data curation | Custom curation | Data/Metadata standardization/harmonization | Data curation | Data annotation | Data labelling | Omics | Data wrangling | Annotation enrichment | Attention to detail | ML-ready omics datasets | Gene expression analysis | Omics data analysis | Custom omics pipelines | Public omics databases | GEO | PRIDE | Array Express | ENA Browser | EFO | NCBI | MESH | Biomedical ontologies | Data FAIRification | FAIR data | Cataloguing omics datasets | Cross-functional team | Team management | Project management | Customer engagement | Biological data analysis & insights | Linux basics | Drug repurposing | Indication expansion | MoA and Hypothesis Building | Data interpretation | Drug discovery/development | Data mining | GEO2R analysis | Microarray analysis | RNA-seq analysis | Multiomics | Transcriptomics | Proteomics | Epigenomics | Inflammation | Cancer biology | Gold-standard datasets | Patient stratification | Machine learning | Drug response prediction | Drug resistance | Data Management | Metadata Management | Data Catalogue | Controlled Vocabularies | Transforming data to intelligence | Cross-functional team | Team management | Team Empowerment (Mentoring & Trainings)| Project management | Customer engagement | Data reuse
Experience
Principal Scientific Manager Bioinformatics Team Lead Data Asset Creation
Apr 2025 — Present · Hyderabad, IN
Education
Kakatiya University, Warangal
Bachelor of Science (BSc)
1997 — 2000
Osmania University
Master of Science (MSc), Biotechnology
2001 — 2003
FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Life-Sciences
2009 — 2013
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