Chaitanya Sudrik

Chaitanya Sudrik has worked in various roles across different companies. In 2018, they worked at Elektrofi as an Associate Director, Principal Scientist, and Sr. Scientist. In this role, they led the prioritization and planning of research projects, managed research staff, developed platform formulation screening and optimization workflows, and conducted research investigations to identify process and formulation variables. From 2015 to 2018, they worked at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) as a Postdoctoral Associate where they characterized the preferential interactions of commonly used excipients with monoclonal antibody (mAb) surface. From 2009 to 2015, they worked at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute as a Postdoctoral Research Associate, Graduate Research Assistant, and Teaching Assistant. As a Postdoctoral Research Associate, they engineered a light-sensitive plant protein to study protein aggregation inside live cells. As a Graduate Research Assistant, they developed a cis-regulatory mRNA element to tune recombinant protein production in mammalian cells. As a Teaching Assistant, they mentored a class of undergraduate students on design projects and homework problems. In 2008, they worked as a Summer Intern at LANXESS where they designed a packed bed scrubber to reduce emission of toluene and conducted process integration resulting in a 3-fold decrease in column height.

Chaitanya Sudrik obtained their Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering from the Institute of Chemical Technology, Mumbai in 2009. Chaitanya then went on to pursue a Doctor of Philosophy in Chemical and Biological Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, which they completed in 2014.