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Venugopal Neelagiri, PhD
Dr. Neelagiri received his PhD degree from the Indian Institute of Chemical Technology in Hyderabad, India. He then had two postdoctoral appointments, the first at the University of Ottawa, which was then followed by 5 years of experience with Pharmacopeia and PharmEco (now Johnson Matthey). In his industrial and academic projects he has gained experience with natural product total synthesis, asymmetric synthesis and several classes of heterocyclic molecules. Dr. Neelagiri has authored 14 technical publications.

Kimberly Vines, PhD
Dr. Vines earned her PhD degree from the University of Alabama at Birmingham (Birmingham, Alabama) under the direction of Dr. Wayne Brouillette in the area of RXR-selective retinoids for breast cancer chemoprevention. Her postdoctoral research was at the University of Mississippi (Oxford, MS) mentored by Dr. Mitchell Avery in the area of anti-malarial research and the total syntheses of natural products. Dr. Vines has 4 years industrial experience including high-throughput synthesis at ArQule generating compound libraries for multinational pharmaceutical company partners. At Infinity Pharmaceuticals she contributed to the synthesis of scaffolds for their drug discovery platform and while at GPC-Biotech, she worked as a medicinal chemist in the area of Oncology. She is the author of 15 technical publications.

Paresh D. Salgaonkar, PhD
Dr. Salgaonkar received his PhD degree from the University Department of Chemical Technology (UDCT), Mumbai, India. He then had two postdoctoral appointments, first at the University of Connecticut with Prof. Bailey where he specialized in organometallic chemistry, followed by Northeastern University with Prof. Makriyannis in the field of Cannabinoids. He has experience in the field of small-molecule heterocyclic synthesis and novel method developments. Dr. Salgaonkar has authored 8 technical publications and holds two Indian patents.

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CreaGen Biosciences, Inc. is located in Woburn, MA, on the near north side of the Greater Boston Area. Boston is one of the primary hubs in the world for life sciences research.
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2009
Recent Developments
1) Press Release (PDF)
2) Patent publication

Dr. Rajur chaired the medicinal chemistry symposium of the Northeastern section of American Chemical Society, Marriott Hotel, Burlington, MA, on September 10th, 2009. Symposium title "Recent Developments in Neurodegenerative diseases”

The Boston Society and NESACS applied pharmaceutical sciences and medicinal chemistry symposium titled"Frontiers in Strategies and Technologies to enrich pharmaceutical pipelines” held on
May 21-22, 2009 at the Merck Research Laboratories Boston Amphitheater, Boston, MA. was Hosted and co-sponsored in part by CreaGen Biosciences, Inc.

3rd Annual Advances In Chemical Sciences Symposium held on April 10, 2009 at the Royal Sonesta Hotel in Cambridge, MA. was Hosted and co-sponsored in part by CreaGen Biosciences, Inc.

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