Dhananjay Deshmukh is seeking a new position and provides a summary of his relevant experience and qualifications. He currently works as a senior research officer at Serum Institute of India in Pune with over 6 years of experience in research and development. His experience includes product development, purification of bacterial vaccines and biosimilars, process characterization and validation. He has a M.Sc. in Biotechnology and is pursuing an MBA with a specialization in operations management. He is organized, results-oriented and has experience leading projects and working in a team environment.

1. Resume
Mr. Dhananjay V. Deshmukh Mobile No.:- +91-8421362261
Research Officer, RND,
Biopharma Park,
Serum Institute of Pune
Pune Maharashtra
E-mail:- dhananjaydeshmukh28@gmail.com
Career Objective:-
My previous assignment as Scientist has helped me gaining a good understanding of line
Research, management principles, quality and compliance management system, end to end
supply chain process and production operations.
I have significant experience in handling small to medium size projects which were mainly
on driving continuous improvement at shop floor.
I’m organized, structured person who enjoy working with fun. I pride myself on being result
oriented, hands-on individual with progressive management experience. My management
style strongly emphasizes teamwork and the principles of lean manufacturing. In the past, my
colleagues as well as my managers have shown appreciation for my strong work ethics, focus
on quality of work, my structured work methods and my engagement to meet set targets.
My strong and exceptional organizational skills combined with my ability to work well under
pressure without compromising with the quality of deliverable's allow me to play a crucial
role in fast growing manufacturing operations.
Professional Experience:-
 Currently Working as Sr.Research officer in Serum Institute of India Pune.
(Dec2012- today)
 Worked as Scientist in Small Scale Purification, Process development, Process
Characterization & Scale Down lab of R&D division of Biocon Ltd., Bangalore.
(Dec 2010-Nov 2012)
 Worked in National Chemical Laboratory Pune as Research Trainee from
July 2010 to Nov 2010 in Enzyme production & Purification process lab.

2.  Worked in Biocon Research Limited Bangalore as Research Project Trainee
on “Optimization of Purification Process for therapeutic proteins” from June 2010
to July 2010.
 Worked in Biocon Research Limited Bangalore as Research Project Trainee
on “Development & Optimization of Purification Process for therapeutic proteins”
from July 2009 to Dec 2009.
 Worked in Centre For Cell & Molecular Biology Hyderabad as Research
Trainee from May 2009 to July 2009.
Current Projects:-
Product Development & Purification of Bacterial Vaccines &Biosimilars:-
 Development of purification process & its optimization with related to molecule.
 Process characterization of optimized purification process.
 Process and product related impurity clearance studies for evaluating process
robustness and capacity.
 Design, perform and analyze scientific tasks related to protein purification
and recovery activities in support of process development and/or scale-up operations
 Recording of data in appropriate format and data compilation.
 Operating Ultra filtration/Diafiltration (UF/DF) system.
 Experience in the use of protein purification systems such as
AKTAPrime/Explorer/Avant.
 Familiarity with CIP, SIP and cleaning verification operations
 Ability to help analyze data from chromatograms.
 Experience with and understanding of Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) and
applicable regulations
 Scale up of purification process to commercial manufacturing scale.
 Process Validation for commercial manufacturing.
 TFF, Viral Purification & its validation.
 Protein fragmentation & Protein refolding study.
 To Support Upstream for all trials and purification.
 HPLC & FPLC related purification
 Analysis of proteins with IEX & SEC chromatography.
 Study of CHT, HIC, mixed mode chromatography.
 Column packing & evaluation, Resin scouting, Scouting of chromatography
parameters.
Functional Responsibilities:-
 Plan strategies for the experiments, initiate experiments, do evaluation studies on the
purification process followed by lab scale run and produce the purified product.
 Report writing and presentation & maintain database for information for different
purification process.

3.  Small scale purification of monoclonal antibodies and anticancer agents & maintaining
product concentration depending on broth titer.
 Process and development of new anticancer agents & study of scale down batches of
different molecules.
 Viral purification & Study of affinity chromatography & be a part of Continuous
improvement projects and generation of ideas.
Academic Qualification:-
 MBA+PGDMBA (Operation Management 2013-2015)
Maharashtra Institute of Technology, Pune Waiting for result.
 PGDCR ( Clinical Research- 2014)
Institute of Clinical Research (ICRI), Mumbai in First class.
 M.Sc. (Biotechnology-2010)
Swami Ramanand Teerth University, Nanded in First Class with Distinction
(73.16%). (Second University Topper)
 B.Sc. (Biotechnology-2008)
Swami Ramanand University, Nanded in First Class with Distinction.
(78.89%). (University Topper)
 H.S.C. (Science)
Higher Secondary School from Aurangabad Educational Board, Aurangabad
in First Class with Distinction. (83.17%)
 S.S.C.
Secondary school from Aurangabad Educational Board, Aurangabad in First
Class with Distinction. (78.89%)
Academic Achievements:-
 Got Qualified GATE 2011 with 92%
 University Topper, President for Biospirit Association & University
Representative in my graduation
 Selected as “Summer Trainee 2009” in Centre for Cellular & Molecular Biology,
Hyderabad.
 I got all “College Awards” For Excellence and performance.
 Continuously Five years College Topper in University Exams.

4. Training/Projects undertaken :-
 Two month summer training at Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology
(CCMB, CSIR, Hyderabad) on NMR Spectroscopy, Structural Biology
Laboratory 2009.
 Completed six month Dissertation Project at MGM’s College of CS & IT Nanded
on “Antibiogram of Propionibacterium acne, Efficacy Plant Extracts and Anti
acne Formulations on it” and Production & Purification of Thrombinase from
Bacillus sphearicus.
 Completed Three Month Project Training at MGM’s College of CS & IT Nanded,
on “Isolation & Large Scale Production of Cellulase Enzyme from Aspergillus
niger.
Workshops/Paper Presented:-
 Participated in 2 days workshop on “Techniques in Biotechnology” at Maharashtra
Animal and Fishery Science University Parbhani
 Participated in 1 day workshop on “Advances in Computer Aided Drug Desining”
organized at SRTM University Nanded.
 Presented paper on “Production of Apergillus Xylanase by Using Cotton Seed As
Substrate” in International Conference on Advances in biosciences: From
Darwin to Dolly & Beyond.
 Presented Poster on “Synthesis Of 2-Substituted Thiazole Derivative as
Antifungal, Antimicrobial & Antiviral Agents” in National Symposium on
Chemistry in Indian institute of Chemical Technology Hyderabad.
 Presented paper on “In Vitro Clonal Propagation of Rosa indica in National
Conference on Plant: Biology to Biotechnology” Yeshwant Mahavidyalaya
Nanded.
 Presented paper on “Isolation & Characterization Of Endosulfan Degrading
Micro organisms From Endosulfan Enriched Soil” in National conference on
Microbiology: From Education to industry
 Presented Paper On “Amyloglucosidase Production” In National Conference on
Green Chemistry And its Perspective” held At SGB Amravati University Amravati.
 Participated in many National, International Conferences and Research inventions.

5. Personal Details:-
Name : Mr. Dhananjay Vasantrao Deshmukh
Date of Birth : 28th
October 1986
Sex : Male
Marital status : Married
Nationality : Indian
Languages : English, Hindi, Marathi
Declaration:-
I hereby declare that the information furnished above by me is true to the best of my
knowledge.
Mr.Deshmukh Dhananjay