Gautam Krishnan
Bits Pilani Kk Birla Goa Campus, India India
Biography
Gautam Krishnan has submitted his PhD thesis in December 2018 from BITS Pilani K K Birla Goa Campus, Goa, India. He has 2 publication in Scopus and SCI listed journals. He has worked in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industry for 14 years at Astra Zeneca India Pvt. Limited, Bangalore (January 1995 – July 2001), Biocon India Pvt Ltd, Bangalore (July 2001 – July 2006), Goodwin Biotechnology India, Goa (September 2006 – May 2009). At Astra, he worked on Drug Discovery programs for malaria & antibiotics with a team of 5 personnel, facilitated screening of 20,000 compounds for an Anti-Malarial Drug Discovery program and in developing Enzymatic Assays for Anti-Malarial Drug Discovery program and Anti-Bacterial program. At Biocon, he was part of an R and D team that launched insulin and is credited with 2 international and 2 Indian patents. At Goodwin Biotechnology India, Goa, he helped establish a new lab in Goa, India, the subsidiary of Florida-based, Goodwin Biotechnology Inc. Undertook two and half-month training at Goodwin Biotechnology USA in the fall of 2006 to acquire experience in c-GMP. Teaching Experience: He has worked as lecturer in Dhempe College, Goa and Visiting faculty at BITS Pilani KK Birla Goa campus from December 2009 to December 2014, where he has taught theory courses like General Biology for five semesters, Bioconversion Technology for three semesters and Recombinant DNA Technology for one semester. He was also Contributory Teacher, Goa University Department of Biotechnology teaching theory courses like Food Biotechnology, Environmental Biotechnology, Biosafety and IPR, Bioentrepreneurship, among others and guided four students for M.Sc Dissertation