Manjula D.

Manjula D. currently serves as Vice President of Business Development (Mid-Atlantic) at Evotec, responsible for driving Discovery stage business development opportunities within the biotechnology, pharmaceutical, academic, and foundation sectors in New York, New Jersey, and the mid-Atlantic region since May 2023. Prior to this role, Manjula held various positions including Director of Alliance Management at Pfizer, where leadership was provided for approximately 20 academic and biotech collaborations from discovery to clinical stages, and Assistant Director at The Rockefeller University's Office of Technology Transfer, focused on cultivating strategic relationships to create collaborations and university start-ups. Experience also includes serving as a Senior Manager of Intellectual Property at the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research Ltd and as a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. Manjula D. holds a Ph.D. in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from the University of Illinois Chicago, and MSc and B.Sc. degrees in Biochemistry from the University of Ottawa.