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Our clients recognize us as a leading - CRO/CDMO and long-term partner working together towards accelerating the journey from ideas to medicines.

Introduction

We are an agile and dynamic team, committed to impacting people's lives by accelerating drug discovery, development and manufacturing. Aurigene Pharmaceutical Services is your CRO/CDMO for end-to-end capabilities across drug discovery, development and manufacturing of APIs and formulations. More than two decades of experience in accelerating breakthrough discoveries for global pharma and biotech companies position us well to understand the challenges and find solutions to bring your products to the market faster.

We have integrated discovery, development and manufacturing operations in most of the technology platforms including cytotoxic APIs, carbohydrates, steroids, PEG derivatives, prostaglandins and peptides. In addition, we run discovery scale and CDMO scale operations in biotherapeutics services such as ADCs, mAbs, mRNAs and CAR Ts.  

Our focus on scientific expertise, technology, innovation and problem solving along with our strong fundamentals on sustainability, compliance and IP security have made us a preferred partner across many large pharma and biotech companies. We believe in fostering and nurturing long-term partnerships through our work built on speed, adaptability, clarity of communication and collaboration.

Aurigene's Legacy

2002

Dr. Reddy’s Custom Pharmaceutical Services was founded for contract development and manufacturing

2004

2004-Dr. Reddy’s Custom Pharmaceutical Services became a CDMO partner for top 3 innovator pharma clients

2005

Aurigene Discovery Technologies Limited was founded to serve the discovery customer

2007

Aurigene Discovery Technologies Limited established long-term FTE business with a top big pharma client

2010

Dr. Reddy’s Custom Pharmaceutical Services won multi-year commercial contracts with big pharma and large CDMO clients

2020

Services arm of Aurigene Discovery Technologies Limited and Dr. Reddy’s Custom Pharmaceutical Services integrated to form Aurigene Pharmaceutical Services Limited.

2022

We are a 700+ scientist organization supporting 125+ global clients and 500+ projects

Our Leadership Team

Akhil Ravi

Chief Executive Officer

Akhil Ravi is Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Aurigene Pharmaceutical Services.

Before joining Aurigene Pharmaceutical Services from Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories on February 1, 2022, Akhil has served as Head of strategy for services and Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients (APIs), Head of API sales in Europe, and as plant head at one of Dr. Reddy’s manufacturing sites.

Akhil holds a B.Tech degree in Chemical engineering from IIT Bombay and an MBA from the Indian School of Business (ISB).

Ganesh Vaidyanathan

Head, Global Business Development

Ganesh Vaidyanathan heads the global business development at Aurigene Pharmaceutical Services. He has experience of +20 years in the pharmaceutical industry and has built, led and managed business teams across geographies covering various portfolios.

In his previous role, he was heading sales for development portfolio wherein he was responsible for driving sales effectiveness through internal and external efforts, new business initiatives and key account management. As a seasoned commercial leader with significant experience in general management, strategy, P & L, negotiations and customer retention, his focus is to identify critical business drivers across global markets and in accordance with changing market dynamics.

Ganesh holds Masters in Business Administration and Bachelors in Chemical Engineering.

Chetan Pandit

Chief Scientific Officer

Chetan received his PhD in synthetic organic chemistry from State University of New York at Buffalo and has over 20 years of experience in synthetic, process and medicinal chemistry in industries spanning across the globe. Chetan has experience in leading multi-disciplinary discovery and developmental teams that have delivered several preclinical and clinical candidates. He has experience in working with various target classes including Proteases, Kinases, NHR’s and Epigenetics. across different therapeutic areas of Oncology, Pain and Inflammation and Metabolic disorders. He has more than 30 patents and publications to his credit and is affiliated with Aurigene since April 2007.

Baburaj Krishnan

Operations Head, Small Molecule CDMO

Baburaj has three decades of experience in the areas of Research and Development, Technology transfer and Manufacturing of small molecules. Prior to joining Aurigene, Baburaj has worked with different renowned organizations. In his last role, he was responsible for delivering development programs for clinical trials. He is expert in the areas of integrated discovery and development services and successfully commercialized several NCEs starting from discovery. In his previous role, he has played an important role in driving strategy and developing capabilities in the CDMO business.

He also has an experience in the development and manufacturing of aroma chemicals, natural products and agrochemicals. He holds a master’s degree in Science and Business Administration from University of Calicut and University of Madras respectively.

Sangamesh Badiger

Operations Head, Small Molecule Discovery Services

Sangamesh received his PhD in synthetic organic chemistry from Gulbarga University, Kalaburgi, Karnataka. He has over two decades of synthetic and medicinal chemistry research experience with several renowned indian pharma companies. Sangamesh has extensive experience in drug discovery projects in metabolic disorders, inflammation, oncology and neuroscience areas. Sangamesh has co-authored 14 publications in peer-reviewed journals and co-invented 12 patents.

Priyaranjan Pattanaik

Head, NBE Services

Dr. Priyaranjan Pattanaik heads the NBE division at Aurigene Pharmaceutical Services Limited, engaged with discovery and development of large molecule drugs and critical bio-reagents. Priyaranjan is a structural biologist with ~18 years of experience in industry and academia. Priyaranjan has led many large molecule discovery collaborations with innovator pharma companies involving antibodies, ADC, mRNA and bi-specific modalities that have resulted in development and clinical candidates. Priyaranjan is passionate about new technologies and their application in accelerating progression of drug candidates from concept to clinic. As a business leader engaged with global clientele, Priyaranjan believes in a people-centric approach to successful collaborations underpinned by transparent communication, high integrity and a shared vision of bringing new therapies to patients faster and in a cost effective way.

Priyaranjan received his Ph. D from Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR), Bangalore. He carried out post-doctoral research in Medical School of Case Western Reserve University at Cleveland, Ohio, USA on structure based NCE discovery against bacterial antibiotic resistance.

Ashutosh Kotwal

Chief Human Resource Officer

Ashutosh Kotwal is a Head HR and Admin with Aurigene Pharmaceutical Services Ltd. In the current role he is responsible to formulate HR strategy aligned to organization strategy and create performance driven culture in the organization. Ashutosh has more than 20 years of rich experience spread across various sectors like pharmaceutical, FMCG and engineering. He brings with him expertise in providing HR leadership at strategic as well as operations level in the areas of HR business partnering, talent and performance management, compensation and benefits and employee relations. He has spearheaded various assignments or projects like setting up HR business partnering organization for India commercial organization, organization restructuring, digitalization of employee life cycle operations, talent management, restructuring of compensation and benefits across multiple organizations, setting up HRIS system for multi divisional organization etc. Before taking up the current role, Ashutosh was heading all HR CoEs for global manufacturing operations for Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories Ltd. Prior to joining Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories Ashutosh was associated with different organizations where he has handled several roles with increasing responsibility. Ashutosh has a master’s degree in Labor Studies from MILS, Mumbai

Vinoth Kumar

Head, Supply Chain and Logistics

Vinoth has over 21 years of experience in supply chain operations which includes strategic sourcing, contract manufacturing, material management and technology transfer activities across pharmaceutical industries. Vinoth is a chemical engineer and holds MBA in pharma management and operations management. He has also obtained PhD in management (SCM). He has many publications in peer reviewed journals to his credit.

Atul Sachdeva

Chief Financial Officer

Atul has 14+ years of rich experience in business finance, investments, and financial performance management across pharmaceutical industry as well as private equity organizations. Atul holds MBA Finance from International Management Institute and B Tech Electronics from Institute of Technology Management. Atul is responsible for driving finance, legal and compliance function at Aurigene.

PVR Bharadwaja

Head, Marketing and Strategy

PVR joins us from Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories and has over 15 years of experience spanning across various functions including business strategy and planning, R and D, business development, alliance management and management consulting.

Before moving to Aurigene, he was part of Dr. Reddy’s commercial API team as the head of BD and portfolio management. PVR holds PGDM from IIM Kozhikode and B Tech in Mechanical Engineering from IIT Madras.

Satyanarayan Giri

Head - SHE, Safety Health and Environment

Satyanarayan is an EHS and sustainability professional with 19 years of cross industry experience. Satyanarayan is a Chemical engineer and holds advanced diploma in Industrial Safety from Mumbai University. He is a PMP certified professional and has professional certifications in GMMP, Lean Six Sigma, Dupont safety training and Ergonomics.

Shailendra Kumar Singh

Head, Regulatory and Quality

Shailendra holds bachelor’s in pharmacy from Sambalpur University, Orrisa, India. He comes with more than 22 years of experience spread across manufacturing operations, quality assurance, production, and supplier technical assurance across pharmaceutical industries. Over the years, Shailendra has worked with leading corporates. He has extensive experience with various regulatory agencies and accompanied audit and compliance. Shailendra is a certified auditor of European Compliance Academy (ECA), Germany and has carried out more than 100 inspections across the world for various dosage forms. As Aurigene’s Quality and Regulatory-Head, Shailendra leads the quality and compliance function and is in charge of initiatives to further strengthen our track record in quality and compliance.

Suresh Juluri

Head, Preclinical Services

Suresh has 22+ years of rich experience in drug discovery and functional service. In his past roles, he has worked in leadership roles in in vivo Pharmacology and Toxicology fields. Suresh holds PhD from Department of Animal Sciences - University of Hyderabad and Masters in Sciences - Biotechnology, SV University Tirupathi.

Suresh is responsible for driving Discovery Biology Services team to achieve long term and short term organizational priorities.

Dr. Rajesh Vooturi

Head, Formulation R and D

Rajesh joins Aurigene from Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories and has over 21+ years of rich experience in the industry. Before moving to Aurigene, he was part of API commercial team and was working as a Program Manager- API Plus.

Rajesh holds Ph.D. in Pharmaceutical Technology from University College of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Kakatiya University and M. Pharm (Pharmaceutics) from BITS Pilani, Rajasthan.

Rajesh is responsible for heading the FR and D Space to ensure delivery of formulation development and technology transfer projects and achieve long term and short term organizational priorities.

Our infrastructure

R and D centers

Aurigene Pharmaceutical Services is well-equipped with laboratories from discovery to clinical phase III for NCEs and NBEs. We operate two state-of-the-art R and D centers in Bangalore and Hyderabad. Our R and D centers are equipped with 60+ modular laboratories to handle highly potent substances, peptides, oligonucleotides etc. Our facility also has an extensive analytical center of excellence in addition to special purpose labs for safety assessment studies and polymorphism studies. Our best-in-class discovery biology services are supported by AAALAC accredited vivarium, BSL-2 compliant labs, in vivo facilities, GLP and other regulatory bodies accredited toxicology labs. Our state-of-the-art preclinical evaluation safety facility has been inspected by FCPSA Netherlands, DCGI and is annually inspected by National GLP Compliance Monitoring Authority (NGCMA). Our facility has also been inspected by the US FDA and the quality systems in this facility are in accordance with NGCMA and US FDA standards.

Manufacturing facilities

We have access to cGMP manufacturing facilities in the UK, Mexico and India. We operate thousands of kilo liters of API capacities that can handle various range of chemistries from regular small molecules, peptides, potent compounds, steroids, carbohydrates and pegylated drugs. In addition, we also operate formulation manufacturing plants that can handle various dosage forms including oral solids, parenteral and topical. Our facilities are designed modularly and offer flexibility of scale, enabling efficient operations. Our manufacturing facilities are regularly inspected by regulatory agencies.

Sustainability

We prioritise sustainability in everything we undertake. At Aurigene Pharmaceutical Services we constantly strive to build sustainable operations by avoiding accidents through safety compliance, minimize environmental impact through stringent standards and enhance health of employees through sustainable operating philosophy. 

Aurigene Pharmaceutical services has a long-standing commitment to safety and sustainability. We have been early pioneers in adopting the sustainability in our operations and have consistently set ourselves ambitious targets in favor of renewable energy, water positivity, waste management and biodiversity.

Life at Aurigene

Our employees, who are constantly striving to set new benchmarks, are at the core of our success. We hire and retain the best in class talent. We foster growth of our employees with curated learning journeys and support their aspirations to help them achieve different milestones. We encourage and support innovative ideas to help employees grow and improve their skill set. Our flagship program 'Prarambh' is designed to commence the professional journey and support an enriching scientific career. Our 'Prarambh 2022' batch is a women-only batch that is focusing on Biotherapeutics services.

We strike a good balance between work and life in order to achieve our full potential. We come together to make festivals, events and other special achievements memorable.

client

Aruna N

Scientist, Medicinal Chemistry

Working at Aurigene encouraged me to grow both professionally and personally. The work environment nurtures excellence and rewards innovation, alongside a culture of safety and security. I also appreciate the opportunity to regularly participate in technical and scientific trainings and that the senior scientists and leaders are extremely supportive and willing to share their knowledge and experience.

client

Sridhar Regati, Ph.D

Senior Scientist, Process R&D

As a member of the R&D team, I feel proud and passionate as I am surrounded by innovative minds, and have the opportunities to contribute to the development of various projects for our global customers. Each new project has its unique challenges and I thoroughly enjoy the learning opportunities presented by each project. Each function at Aurigene Pharmaceutical services has subject matter experts and I always look forward to our cross functional meetings where we plan together and work as a team to ensure that desired results are always delivered.

 
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