Management Team

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• Dr. Pooran Chand, Chief Executive Officer
  Dr. Pooran Chand has an illustrious career of over 22 years in the field of medicinal chemistry. He is a highly accomplished scientist who discovered several drug candidates in areas of antiviral, anticancer and cardiovascular diseases. He led the research team that discovered peramivir, a broad-spectrum antiviral compound with activity against multiple strains of flu, including the H5N1 virus that causes the Asian flu. Dr. Chand is the inventor of over 12 issued US patents and several others are still pending. In addition he authored over 50 publications in peer-reviewed journals.
  
  
• Mr. Amit Agrawal, Founder, Therachem
  Mr Amit Agrawal is a founder member and key promoter of the JECRC Foundation, which has grown to be reckoned as a leading academic group in North India, offering scientific and technical education. He is a young and dynamic leader who envisioned the need for good technical education for young aspirants. His vision motivated him to start courses in engineering and further diversify into management and biotechnology. Today, the JECRC Foundation annually receives over 3,500 students, who enrol at its various colleges to pursue their course and make their career. His penchant towards scientific research encouraged him to start a research training programme, which shaped into an establishment we know as Therachem.
  
  
  
• Dr. Ahmed F. Abdel-Magid, Chief Scientific Officer
  Dr. Ahmed Abdel-Magid holds a wide expertise of more than 22 years in the field of chemical process research in pharmaceutical industry. He is a highly accomplished scientist who developed a number of processes that have been implemented at the industrial and manufacturing level. He is the inventor of 19 issued patents and several pending applications, the editor of 3 books and the author of 36 publications. He is known for the development of the widely used and highly cited procedure for the reductive amination of ketones and aldehydes with sodium tricetoxyborohydride. Dr. Abdel-Magid was the executive officer of the 39th National Organic Chemistry Symposium (NOS) held on June 12-16, 2005 in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA. He is currently the Program Chair Elect and a member of the Executive Committee of the Division of Organic Chemistry of the American Chemical Society.
  
  
• Mr Arpit Agrawal
  Mr Arpit Agrawal assumed responsibility as a member of the management board of the JECRC Foundation, right after his post-graduate coursework in MBA. His ideas and initiatives have strengthened the functioning of the JECRC Foundation. Being one of the key promoters, Mr Arpit Agrawal takes keen interest in the development and growth plans of Therachem.