Ratanesh Kumar Seth

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About Ratanesh Kumar Seth

Accomplished, energetic, subject matter expert, highly trained toxicologist, immunologist, pharmacologist, and manager with 10+ years post Ph.D. experience. Proactive, organized, attention to detail, assay developer, self-motivated, adaptive, fast-paced, multitasking, and able to work independently. Specialties: • Toxicology: Invitro and invivo toxicology (cytotoxicity/hepatotoxicity/neurotoxicity/ gastrointestinal toxicity/ behavioral/developmental/small molecule and drug toxicity) and familiar GLP, Tox-21, 3R, and regulatory toxicology. • Immunology: Innate immunity, antibody development, malaria immunology, gastrointestinal inflammation, neuroinflammation, liver inflammation, and kidney inflammation. • Pharmacology: invivo and invitro testing of single and combination of drugs. Experience and skills: • Proficient in pre-clinical studies, assay development, study monitoring, and mentoring. • Excellent Program management (certified) skills, as evidenced by completing multiorganizational projects and managing the multisite clinical trial. • Experienced regulatory affairs scientist (Sun Pharmaceutical Ltd), IACUC, IRB, Biosafety, and FDA. • Demonstrated ability to conceive, plan, design, and execute research projects independently or as a part of a team. • Excellent writing and communication skills as evident with 48+ research articles in high impact journals, 20+ annual meeting abstracts, invited talks, and undergraduate teaching. • Excellent scientific reviewer (articles and grants), editorial board services, and judge of several research projects in conferences. • 10+years of experience in standard research lab techniques, e.g, Molecular biology (DNA, RNA, oligos, qRTPCR, microRNA, siRNA, genotyping, cloning, protein expression). Immunology (multicolor flow cytometry, ELISA, immunohistochemistry, immunofluorescence, microscopy, immunoblot). Cell biology (in-vitro drugs and toxins testing, handling ex-vivo samples, clinical samples, PBMC, cell culture, and experiments; plate-based/cell-based toxicology and pharmacology assay). Biochemistry (calorimetry and fluorimetry). Microbiology (bacterial culture, cloning, microbiome). Metagenomics (NGS data and gut microbiome analysis). Histopathology (Rodent intestine, liver, and brain).