Ramakrishna Boyanapalli

About Ramakrishna Boyanapalli

Well-accomplished Biomarker strategist and leader with 5+ years of broad range expertise in research and development focusing on biomarker strategy, assay development & validations, program lead roles.Leadership skills: Strategic leadership supporting Program Teams (EPTs); managing junior to senior level scientists, outsourcing and overseeing projects at CROs and CTOs.Technical skills:Biomarker strategies, clinical biomarker management, Mode of Action, Target validation studies, Companion Diagnostics, immunogenicity, bioanalytical, cell and molecular biology, immunology, neurology, Next Generation Sequencing, Big Data Analysis, Assay development and validation; immuno & molecular point of care rapid diagnostics.

Experience

1. Senior Director, Biomarker Development

   Bristol-Myers Squibb

   Mar 2022 — Present · Cambridge, MA, US

   Key responsibilities include, but not limited to Biomarker Strategy Implementation for various programs in the Neuroscience Thematic Research Center (TRC) working via an “externalized portfolio” model; projects are driven by TRC strategy based on data generated predominantly in collaboration with external partners.The biomarker projects/platforms of interest cover both preclinical and clinical assets, and are conducted in partnership with external partners (start-ups, academics, Foundations, contract research organizations, other Pharma) and in collaboration with internal stakeholders (Neuroscience TRC scientists, Informatics & Predictive Sciences, biology, imaging, epidemiology, genetics, translational development, clinical development, statistics, and regulatory teams). Responsible for communicating overall biomarker strategy internally and externally.

Education

• Medical University of Ohio at Toledo

  Graduate Certification, The Bioinformatics, Proteomics/Genomics Certificate Program

  2003 — 2005

• Osmania University

  B. Sc, Microbiology, Zoology, and Chemistry

  1994 — 1997

• Illinois Institute of Technology

  Computer Sciences

  2001 — 2001

• Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University

  M Sc, Environmental Science and Technology

  1997 — 2000

• Bowling Green State University

  PhD, Biological Sciences

  2001 — 2006

• University of Colorado Boulder

  Postdoctoral Fellow, Biochemistry

  2006 — 2008

Skills

• In Vitro
• Glp
• R&D
• Medical Diagnostics
• Western Blotting
• High Throughput Screening
• Biomarkers
• Genomics
• Dna
• Protein Chemistry
• Flow Cytometry
• Elisa
• Infectious Diseases
• Cell
• Enzyme Kinetics
• Immunochemistry
• Cell Biology
• Biopharmaceuticals
• Pharmaceutical Industry
• Hplc
• Lateral Flow Immunochemistry
• Purification
• Protein Expression
• Biotechnology
• Protein Purification
• Methods Development
• Microscopy
• Cell Culture
• Bioinformatics
• Cell Based Assays
• Methods Validation
• Cell Signaling
• Molecular Biology
• Immunofluorescence
• Qpcr
• Monoclonal Antibodies
• Immunology
• Assay Development
• Immunoassays
• In Vivo