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Abhinandan (abhi) Raghavan

Abhinandan (abhi) Raghavan PhD

Bioinformatics
Spring House, Pennsylvania, United States of America

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Raghavan is a Highly qualified, tenacious and well-accomplished professional with 16+ years of experience in managing the full range of data analytics and computational biology research. Proven abilities in planning, coordinating, and implementing practices and procedures to bring significant improvements in processes towards the successful attainment of goals

He leads the informatics platform for the Integrated Biologics Profiling Unit (IBP) in Novartis Pharmaceuticals. Spread across 3 countries (Switzerland, USA, and Austria), IBP handles the profiling and ranking of Novartis' biologics candidates and cell lines.

He is best known for his work on the development of algorithms to aid antibody engineering. As a functional lead for informatics in IBP, he has the privilege of working on things that truly make a difference to the lives of patients. He trained as a computer engineer, he became fascinated with the immensity of biological data. Since foraying into computational biology and a PhD, there's been no looking back. The best part of this journey is the diversity of data and the people that he work with.
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