Surendra Thapa
Senior Scientist, CMC, small molecule API
- Role
- Senior Scientist, Cmc at Takeda
- Location
- Cambridge, MA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Surendra Thapa
Published 24 peer-reviewed scientific articles• Obtained experience in a variety of industrial and academic environments, performing research on Organic, Organometallic, and Materials chemistry• Expertise includes process chemistry experience, methods development, and validation, collaborative as well as independent strategic planning and execution of diverse research projects, mentoring and advising undergraduate/high school students, and the effective communication of scientific knowledge to a wide audience.• Executed reactions on a broad range of scales from several milligrams to multi-grams• Process development and scale-up (multi-kilogram scale) synthesis under cGMP environment.• Proficient in route design and executing multi-step synthesis of small molecules by using modern synthetic organic chemistry.• Route scouting of new API, purifications of the synthesized molecule, and structural elucidations.• Experienced in analytical instrumentation such as UPLC/HPLC, flash chromatography, NMR, LC-MS, Karl-Fischer, Mettler Toledo EasyMax reactor with PAT tools like react-IR.• Excellent project management, strong leadership, teamwork, and problem-solving skills; evidenced by multiple completed projects as a first author as well as co-author, 18 published articles in high-impact & hl=en
Experience
Senior Scientist, Cmc
Nov 2025 — Present · Boston, MA, US
Education
Harvard University
Postdoctoral Fellow, Materials Chemistry
The University of New Mexico
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Organometallic Chemistry
2013 — 2018
South Dakota State University
Bachelor's degree, Chemistry
Skills
- Nmr
- Mass Spectrometry
- Science
- Biochemistry
- Research
- Spectroscopy
- Lifesciences
- Uv/Vis Spectroscopy
- Pcr
- Molecular Biology
- Hplc
- Western Blotting
- Cell Culture
- Bioinformatics
- Chemistry
- Ir, Uv-Vis, Gc/Ms, Lc/Ms, Xray Crystallography
- Statistics
- Analytical Chemistry
- Scanning Electron Microscopy
- High-Performance Liquid Chromatography (Hplc)
- Biotechnology
- Uv/Vis
- Organic Chemistry
- Elisa
- Matlab
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