Srinivasan Babu obtained a Ph.D. in organometallic chemistry from Iowa State University in 1987 under the guidance of Prof. Richard Larock. For the past 22 years, he has held various positions within the process development department at Monsanto, G.D. Searle, Agouron, Pfizer and Genentech. He leveraged that experience for the
past 13 years by getting involved in sourcing key intermediates for API synthesis in various phases of development at Agouron, which later merged with Pfizer. Presently, he heads the sourcing group for the small molecule pharmaceutical sciences (SMPS) dept. at Genentech Research and Early Development (GRED). His responsibilities now include establishing outsourcing collaborations to support all aspects of Pharmaceutical Sciences, ranging from custom synthesis, process chemistry, preformulation and formulation and
analytical development.
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