Akshaya Ravichandran
Principal Scientist at BioFactura, Inc.
Frederick, Maryland, United States
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Top SchoolAkshaya Ravichandran is a goal-driven Principal Scientist with nine years of experience translating mechanistic microbiology and analytical chemistry into preclinical and translational outcomes. She has led cross-functional projects from assay development and LC-MS/MS quantification to in vivo efficacy studies and regulatory documentation, contributing to successful NIH funding and licensing agreements. Her work spans academic and industry settings—ranging from elucidating antifungal mechanisms during a PhD to developing receptor pharmacology assays in postdoctoral research and advancing biologics-focused analytics at Novavax and BioFactura. Known for building robust SOPs and project plans that enable tech transfer, she combines hands-on method development with team leadership and a track record of moving candidates toward IND-enabling milestones. An experimentalist comfortable with both high-resolution structural techniques and behavioral pharmacology, she often bridges molecular insight with practical formulation and CMC considerations.
9 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Anna University, ChennaiDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Microbiology, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Microbiology at Texas A&M University
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Github Skills (17)
java7
data-structures7
cpp7
gets6
shell6
pointer6
memory-management6
bash6
javascript6
recipe4
spring3
spring-boot3
searching1
parallel1
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Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
Aksha/Technical-and-Competitive-Programming
Apr 2017 - Jul 2022
Data Structures, Algorithms and Object Oriented Design
Contributions:1487 commits, 2 PRs, 1486 pushes in 5 years 4 months
cppjavascriptalgorithms-and-data-structuresobject-oriented-designobject-oriented
Aksha/eEstateAgent
Dec 2016 - Nov 2017
Contributions:4 pushes in 11 months
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