Sandhya Kortagere

Sandhya Kortagere is the Inventor, Co-founder and Chief Scientific Officer of PolyCore Therapeutics LLC. Dr. Kortagere is a molecular pharmacologist with over 15 years experience in Drug Discovery and Development. She is currently a Professor at Drexel University College of Medicine where she pioneered in the development of a platform technology called the Hybrid Structure Based method to design small molecule modulators to a variety of therapeutically relevant protein targets. Prior to her arrival at Drexel, she was a research and teaching specialist at Robert Wood Johnson Medical school of Rutgers University, NJ. Dr. Kortagere obtained her Ph.D at National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences, Bangalore, India in Molecular Pharmacology and pursued her postdoctoral fellowship at Mount Sinai Medical Center and Weill Cornell Medical College at NYC.