Ajeesh Kumar has over 20 years of experience working for leading CROs in India. After completing his master’s in chemistry, he started his career in Synthetic Chemistry at Syngene in 2001 and worked in Medicinal Chemistry for leading global clients till 2006. After having been in Czech Republic at Masaryk University as Research Scholar for about a year, he joined Anthem Biosciences as Manager in 2007 and served for a decade. In this tenure, he had the experience of working in NCE research for many medicinal chemistry projects initially and then had the opportunity to work for Process R&D projects for a couple of top five pharma companies across the globe. By this time, he completed his PhD in Industrial Chemistry from Kuvempu University with several publications to his credit.
He joined DSK in 2018 as Senior Principal Scientist where he is heading the Process R&D team working for leading global clients of diverse nature. His team comprises of process chemists with differentiated expertise in route scouting, process optimization, back integration and cost reduction. His team was instrumental in generating original ideas that resulted in developing many scale-up and manufacturing processes for various projects which helped the clients to save significant cost and time.
His team’s commitment to process research and development has been acknowledged as a significant contribution by several global leading clients and is always hungry to take newer challenges in technology development.