Charu Chaudhry BSc, PhD

Charu Chaudhry has been at Bristol Myers Squibb for 8 years and is currently a Group Leader in Lead Discovery and Optimization. She and her team utilize in vitro pharmacology, enzymology, kinetics and mechanism of action to drive drug discovery within the oncology/IO, immunology, fibrosis and cardiovascular disease areas. She received her undergraduate training in Chemistry at M.I.T, and holds a Ph.D. in Biophysics from Yale University. She was a Helen Hay Whitney post-doctoral fellow at the N.I.H., using a combination of X-ray crystallography and mechanistic biochemistry to understand structure-function relationships across various target classes including molecular chaperones.