Developability of Biotherapeutics

Sandeep Kumar, PhD, is a senior principal scientist at Pfizer, Inc. in the Biotherapeutics Pharmaceutical Sciences group, working on computational modeling and developability risk assessments of a wide variety of biotherapeutic drug candidates, including monoclonal antibodies, antibody-based therapeutics, fusion proteins, vaccines, and antibody-drug conjugates. He earned his PhD in computational biophysics from the Molecular Biophysics Unit of the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India, and performed postdoctoral research on proteins at the National Cancer Institute in Frederick, Maryland, a part of the National Institutes of Health. He has been an assistant professor (research-track) at Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, DC; an assistant professor at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur; and an associate research scientist at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland. He has more than 17 years of experience in computational protein sciences. He has contributed more than 60 research papers, review articles, and book chapters, has delivered more than 40 invited talks, and has chaired sessions of several conferences. He has won several fellowships and awards, including a Fogarty visiting scientist fellowship at NIH and the 2014 Ebert Prize from the American Pharmacists Association. He has also mentored several graduate students and postdoctoral scientists.