Dr. Raman Govindarajan, Sr. Vice President - Discovery Biology & Translational Medicine

Dr. Raman Govindarajan has more than 20 years of discovery and development experience that spans across different therapeutic areas. Raman obtained his Bachelors degree in Medicine & Surgery from Mysore Medical College, trained as Internal Medicine and obtained a PhD in Cell Biology from Bombay University, working at Jaslok Hospital. He then carried out postdoctoral research at Cornell University Medical College, New York. He has worked with major pharmaceutical & research based companies in the world, such as Unilever Research in India and USA and Johnson & Johnson, Singapore. In Unilever he worked on aging and pigmentation where he led global teams to develop many successful technologies that were eventually marketed. He is also a toxicologist and has been an ASEAN senior expert in post-marketing surveillance. Additionally, at Johnson and Johnson, he was regional director for medical, scientific and regulatory affairs for the Asia Pacific region. The areas of his interest have been epithelial differentiation, pigmentation, tumor initiation, apoptosis and protein trafficking and natural product chemistry. He is the author of three book chapters, has secured extramural funding along with academic collaborators and was recently a discussion leader at a Gordon Conference. He has over 24 filed patents, 25 peer reviewed publications and 42 conference papers to his name. At Jubilant he holds the position of Senior Vice President – Development & Translational Medicine and has the overall scientific responsibility for all Discovery and Translational Biology work within Jubilant Biosys.