Chitra Lele, Ph.D.

Chitra Lele has been part of the Sciformix leadership from its inception and has been instrumental in establishing the pharmacovigilance practice at Sciformix. Sciformix Corporation is a world leading Scientific Process Organization (SPO), providing scientific knowledge-based services to pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical, generics, consumer products, medical devices and other healthcare companies - in the areas of Safety and Risk Management, Clinical Research & Post-Approval Support and Regulatory Affairs. Prior to Sciformix, as Executive Director responsible for India operations of Pfizer Global R&D, Chitra established India's first Biometrics Center providing services in clinical data management, statistics, programming and medical writing, and successfully grew it to a size of over 400 staff. Chitra has a Ph.D in Statistics from Stanford University and her prior experience includes work as a biostatistician in cancer epidemiology at Stanford University and University of California, San Francisco and as a faculty member at the School of Statistics at the University of Minnesota and Indian Institute of Technology.