Jitendra Kumar

About Jitendra Kumar

Almost 11 years of experience in R&D Biopharmaceutical industrial (Lupin, Intas & Ipca) along with 4.5 years of commercial experience at GE Healthcare and Cytiva Pvt. Ltd.Having core competencies of Cloning and expression, mammalian cell culture, USP process development, Media/feed development etc. Working as Upstream application specialist at Cytiva (formerly GE Healthcare), specialization in media/feed development for Biopharma industries Strong technical expertise to resolve the cell culture issue/challenges e.g. productivity, quality and culture performance across the industries Supporting industries for developing the mAbs, Vaccine and Gene therapy process. Also expertise in cell culture shingle cell cloning, plasmid propagation, transfection, Cell banking etc. Lead the overall technical support of upstream process especially for media/feed development for different Biopharmaceuticals industries across the Asia Strong leadership experience in technical operations, team building, project management and continuous project improvement Hands on expertise in upstream process development, scale-up at 2L - 50L bioreactor scale technology transfer, pre-clinical material generation in a GLP environment more than 10 mAbs (IgG1) molecules developed in different mammalian host (CHO-S/CHO-GS ) few are in the market and few are at different clinical phases Worked as early stage project coordinator to take the lead of project and provide day-to-day updates of development and operational function Successfully Design-in the media and feed at manufacturing scale for different Biopharma Industries Successfully developed media/feed customization in collaboration with Cytiva R&D for Biopharmaceuticals industries Successfully develop the microcarrier based process for COVID Vaccine (COVAXIN) Identify customer’s problems and provided the technical inputs for overcoming the challenges e.g. Clonal selection of stable clone, titer & quality etc.

Experience

1. Upstream Application Specialist Apac

   Cytiva

   Mar 2020 — Present · Bengaluru, IN

Education

• Bhupendra Narayan Mandal University, Madhepura

  B.Sc, Biotechnology, First class with Distinction

  2000 — 2005

• SRM University

  M.Sc, Biotechnology & Bioinformatics, First class with Distinction

  2005 — 2007

• Patna University

  Master of Arts (M.A.), Personnel Management and Industrial relation, First class with Distinction

  2013 — 2015