Saurabh Verma
Associate Director leading innovative antiparasiticides testing at Boehringer Ingelheim
- Role
- Associate Director at Boehringer Ingelheim
- Location
- Athens, GA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Saurabh Verma
Highly motivated and self-driven scientist with 15+ years of research experience in electrophysiology, molecular biology, and neuroscience, with a focus on ion channel biomarkers/drug discovery. • Worked with nematode models, primary cell culture models, cell lines and live brain slices of murine and primates. • Experienced in stereotaxic surgeries and animal behavior studies. • Proven technical, scientific and teaching expertise in electrophysiology, physiology, pharmacology and biomedical sciences. • Experienced in in vitro and in vivo platforms to address the need to validate molecular biomarkers of disease progression/anthelmintic resistance, with proficiency in study design.• Effectively identified and interconnected cross-functional expertise for a common research goal, resulting in 20+ projects/peer-reviewed journal publications. Demonstrated the ability to succeed in an interdisciplinary team setting, having worked closely with 10+ collaborators in academic as well as Industrial setting.• Intrinsically motivated team player as well as able to lead independently. Experienced leader and communicator, having engaged professional audiences, trained laboratory personnel, students (graduate/bachelor), and taught in a classroom setting for 15+ years.• Experienced Veterinarian with background in pharmacology and toxicology.Specialties: Electrophysiology : Patch clamp-whole cell current and voltage clamp, Field recordings. Molecular : PCR, Western, Lentiviral vectors etc.Software: Clampex, MATLAB, Pymol.I look forward to building new connections! Please feel free to contact me via LinkedIN or e-mail (s••••••@gmail.com)
Experience
Associate Director
Oct 2020 — Present · Athens, GA, US
Responsible for testing and characterizing novel antiparasiticides in laboratory animal models. Study director for all studies performed on laboratory animals in house and outsourced.Group leader with 5 direct reports.Parasitology expert: project team member, developer of innovative in-vivo screening tests, and support any other parasitology animal study needs (immunology and in-vitro models). Research project leader for early phase projects, small synthetic molecules, natural products and immune modulators.
Education
JNKVV
Master of Science - MS, Veterinary Toxicology and Pharmacology
1999 — 2001
Jawaharlal Nehru Krishi Vishwavidyalaya
DVM, Veterinary Science
1993 — 1998
Iowa State University
PhD, Biomedical Sciences
2003 — 2008
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