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Core Team

Professor Kevin Shakesheff
Professor Kevin Shakesheff

I believe that the future strength of the pharmaceutical sciences in India and the UK is dependent on collaboration. The health problems we are trying to tackle require large teams of talented scientists working across discipline and national boundaries. The Science Bridge brings together biologists, pharmacists, clinicians, process engineers, supply chain economists and many others at a time when the UK and India can grow world class collaborations that tackle major issues in drug discovery, regenerative medicine and the manufacture of the drugs of the future.

I am a Pharmacist and gained my PhD from Nottingham under the supervision of Martyn Davies and Saul Tendler. In 1996 I took up a NATO Postdoctoral Fellowship at MIT with Bob Langer and returned to the UK in 1997 to take up an EPSRC Advanced Fellowship. In 2001 I was appointed to a Professorship.

Major awards in recent years include:

  • 2007 - Pharmaceutical Sciences Research Achievement Award
  • 2003 - Hanson Award
  • 2002 - Royal Pharmaceutical Society Conference Medal.
  • 2001 - MIT Technology Review List of the World’s 100 Top Young Innovators.
  • 2000 - Royal Institution Scientist for the New Century
I have launched two spin-out companies, Critical Pharmaceuticals Ltd (winner of 2002 Research Councils’ Business Plan Competition) & RegenTec Ltd .

Current research

My research interests focus on regenerative medicine and the delivery of biopharmaceuticals. I have invented numerous new delivery systems for cells and growth factors and applied these systems in the regeneration of bone, cartilage, liver, nerve and corneal tissue.
Our current goals include:

  • Design and manufacture of growth factor delivery systems
  • Investigate potential roles of cell delivery systems
  • Enhance clinical applicability of scaffolds
  • Improve architecture control within 3D stem cell cultures
  • Apply tissue engineered models in vitro in drug discovery and safety profiling

Memberships of Committees and Professional Bodies

  • Member of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain
  • Member, EPSRC Peer Review College
  • Member, BBSRC Healthy Organism Panel
  • Member, National Centre for Replacement, Refinement and Reduction (NC3R) Replacement Advisory Committee
  • Vice President, Tissue and Cell Engineering Society

Teaching

  • Colloidal science
  • MSc in Stem Cell Technology
  • Advanced Drug Delivery
  • 'The Scientific Entrepreneur: Starting your own pharmaceutical or biotech company and protecting your inventions'.

I am an external examiner at the University of Manchester

Professor Pradip Sinha

Academic Background:

I am Professor at the Department of Biological Sciences and Bioengineering and led this new Bio-initiative at IIT Kanpur. I received my Ph. D. from Banaras Hindu University. As a Humboldt Foundation Fellow, I received my post-doctoral training in the German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg. Prior to joining the BSBE department in June, 2001, I was a Professor of Life Sciences in D. A. University, Indore. I am currently President of Indian Society of Developmental Biologists.

By leading the BioPharma 2020 initiatives at IIT Kanpur, I hope to bring the Bio-entrepreneurial activities in the campus and drive research directed at addressing Biomedical problems taking advantage of the immense expertise of science and engineering at IITK.

Research

The model organism fruit fly, Drosophila, is ideal for exploring the cellular and developmental basis of human diseases. For instance, nearly two third of the genes implicated in cancers in human are conserved in Drosophila, thereby making it one of the most promising models to explore genetic, cellular and developmental mechanisms of carcinogenesis. Mutation in Drosophila tumor suppressors like lgl, scrib and dlg produce neoplasms while those in fat, lgd, or hippo induce hyperplasia: these, respectively, represent the fly equivalents of cancers and benign overgrowths in human. My interests are focused on understanding the developmental and genetic basis of cancers and hyperplasia. My eventual goal is to extend this fundamental knowledge from the fly model to the understanding of carcinogenesis in human. Two ongoing investigations in my lab are:

  • Identification of the signaling pathways implicated in Drosophila cancers and hyperplasia, and their cellular and developmental ramifications.
  • Study of the transcriptomes in Drosophila to identify the genetic networks perturbed during carcinogenesis and hyperplasia. In this microarray-based approach, I profile gene expression on the Affymetrix platform.
  • We are targeting the signaling pathways mis-regulated in Drosophila tumor as a strategy screen for anti-cancer drug in vivo.
Professor Kulwant S Pawar
Professor Kulwant S Pawar

BioPharm 2020 is a major UK and India Science Bridge, established to create long-term collaborations in pharmaceutical research.

The University of Nottingham’s Schools of Pharmacy and Business, the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur and the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore have joined forces to exploit the synergies between scientists and industries in India and the UK to create a step-change in collaborative innovation.

The Science Bridge brings together industrialists, academics and students to undertake research in drug discovery, biological and cellular medicines, formulation and the supply chain, with the goals of delivering:

Current research

My research interests include collaboration in physical and virtual product design teams, organisational readiness for new product development, design performance, knowledge transfer and share in the extended supply chain and comparative analysis of supply chain networks and configurations between Europe, China and India

Chairmanship & Organisation of Conferences

  • Director, Centre for Concurrent Enterprise, University of Nottingham (1999-date)
  • Founder and principal organiser of International Symposia series (1993, 1995, 1997, 1999, 2000, 01, 02, 03, 04, 05. 06, 07, 08..) on Logistics (www.isl21.net)
  • Key organiser and Co-Chairman of the International Conference on Concurrent Enterprising series (since 1994 to date) (www.ice-conference.org)
  • Founder and Chairman, European Knowledge Management Summer school (2001-03)
  • Chairman, CE network of excellence with over 400 worldwide membership
  • Member, Chartered Institute of Logistics & Transports’ (CILT) Education, Training and Research committee
  • Director, ESoCE (Rome) (www.esoce.net)

Teaching

  • Logistics & Supply Chain Management
  • Managing Service Operations
  • Concurrent Engineering
  • Lean Techniques and Performance Measurements
  • Operations Management
  • Managing International Operations
I am an external examiner at the University of Cardiff.
Professor Janat Shah

I am Head of the Supply Chain Management Center and Professor of Production and Operations Management at the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore.

After graduating as a mechanical engineer from the Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai, I worked with industry for about five years. I have obtained my Fellow in Management from the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad.

I have been a Visiting Scholar at the Sloan School of Management, MIT and also a Visiting Faculty for a term with The Logistic Institute at National University, Singapore. I currently hold a position of Special Professor at Nottingham University.

I am currently President of Society of Operations Management India.

Research

My research interests are in the fields of Supply Chain Management, and Design of Manufacturing Systems. With Supply Chain Management I have been focusing on: Green Supply Chains, Supply Chain Risk Management, Service Supply Chains & collaboration & coordination challenges in Supply Chains. I am also interested in specific supply chain challenges in the Pharmaceutical & Fashion industries.

Teaching

  • Operations Management
  • Supply Chain Management

Memberships of Committees and Professional Bodies

on the editorial board of:

  • International Journal of procurement Management
  • International journal of product Lifecycle Management
  • International Journal of Logistics: Research & Applications

Member of

  • Informs
  • Production & Operations Management Society
President of Society of Operations Management
                  University of Nottingham