Vikas Chandrawanshi
AGM (Upstream R&D) at Intas Pharmaceuticals, 14+ years of expertise in developing biosimilar drugs using CHO cell lines, Ex-Dr. Reddy’s (Biologics R&D), Ph.D. IIT Bombay (Chemical Engg.), B.Tech, VIT Vellore (Biotech)
- Role
- Assistant General Manager Group Lead at Intas Pharmaceuticals
- Location
- Hyderabad, TG, IN
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Vikas Chandrawanshi
Currently, I am working as Assistant General Manager (Group Lead) in Upstream Process Development at Intas Pharmaceuticals (Biopharma division) and managing a team of 14-20 Scientists and Research associates across 7-8 Global drug development programs. I worked for ~7 years (2011, 20••••25) on Upstream Biopharmaceutical Research for Biosimilar (Monoclonal antibodies) drug production for the treatment of Cancer and Auto-immune disorders at Biologics, Dr. Reddy\'s Lab, Hyderabad. I have experience in the development of bio-similar Mabs and fusion proteins from AMBR15/250 scale to Fed-batch/ATF perfusion systems (5 L glass bioreactor scale to L Single-use systems). I am experienced in scale-down model development, end-to-end process scale-up, Process characterization, Tech transfer to manufacturing/MSAT, DoE (JMP), Drafting of technical and scientific documents (DocHub, Journals, Patents), Led a team of 6-12 research associates and understood all the facets of biologic process development.My Ph.D. and few other research position related works (20••••19) at Prof. Sarika Mehra\'s Lab, Dept. of Chemical Engineering, IIT Bombay, focussed on \"Enhancing monoclonal antibody production in recombinant CHO cells using a combination of cell-line and process modifications\".Further details are available at: & hl=en
Experience
Assistant General Manager Group Lead
Oct 2025 — Present · Ahmedabad, IN
Upstream Process Development (Cell culture, Biosimilars, Scale up)
Education
Sri Chaitanya College of Education
Class 12th, Science
2005 — 2007
Delhi Public School, Korba
Class 10th
1994 — 2005
Vellore Institute of Technology
B.Tech Biotechnology
2007 — 2011
Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Bioprocess engineering and Systems Biology (Department of Chemical Engineering)
Skills
- Sds-Page
- Data Analysis
- Dispensing
- Fermentation Technology
- Media Preparation
- Chromatography
- Cleaning Validation
- Pcr
- Upstream
- Biotechnology
- Process Review
- Process Validation
- Research
- Mammalian Cell Culture
- Scada
- Quality Assurance
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