ACADEMIC QUALIFICATION 2012 (ongoing): Ph.D. Biochemistry, University of Canterbury (N.Z.) Supervisors: Prof. Juliet Gerrard and Dr. Celine Valery 2007: MSc. Applied Biomolecular Technology, University of Nottingham (U.K.) Supervisors: A.Prof. C.E.D Rees and Dr. Jianhua Jia PUBLICATIONS AND POSTER PRESENTATION 2013: Protein β-interfaces as a generic source of native peptide tectons. Valéry C, Pandey R, Gerrard JA. Chem Commun (Camb). 2013 Mar 7;49(27):2825-7. doi: 10.1039/c3cc39052g. PubMed PMID: 23443967. 2010: Chlorophenol stress affects aromatic amino acid biosynthesis — a genome-wide study. Vikas Yadav, Kirti Shitiz, Rishi Pandey and Jyoti Yadav*. Yeast 2010 (Wiley Interscience) WORK EXPERIENCE AND CAREER HIGHLIGHTS Sept’ 2011 to July 2012: Associate Scientist (Vaccine R&D); MSD Wellcome Trust Hillemanlabs; As a scientific member of the R&D team my job profile included development and synthesis of oligosaccharide segments as immunogenic mimetics for vaccine development. Dec'2008 to Aug'2011: At Biocon (P) Ltd, Bangalore (India); As a scientist (R&D) my job responsibilities included designing & development of novel formulations for monoclonal antibody based anti-cancer drug candidates.