Sapana Mehandale

Education: Master in Bioinformatics
Experience: 16 years
Expertise: She has Over 16 years of experience as a software developer Bioinformatics domain expert and business owner. Expertise in areas ranging from business administration to marketing, product development, and services, training students and professionals.

Key accomplishments:

The entrepreneur who grew business from start-up to a million annually through effective business planning, creative sales techniques, and innovative marketing. Expert knowledge in all facets of software development life cycle, technical support, training to new recruits, Bio-informatics & Chemo-informatics tools, and databases Recognized by clients and colleague as consummate professional with high degree of personal integrity. She knew for contagious passion for excellence, a talent for resourceful business solutions and capacity for motivational leadership. Possess outstanding communication and presentation abilities. Effectively market the tangible / intangible products and services; skilled in persuasive presentation and profitable negotiation. Offer excellent customer relation skills.

Co-authored in 20 publications in peer-reviewed high impact factor journals (4 book chapters (submitted), 9 research papers(submitted), 7 review papers (submitted, final stage), and 4 review papers ( final editing)

Technical Skills & knowledge:

Software Development:  Efficient in understanding and execution Client requirements. Expertise in Biojava, CDK, BIoPython, BIoPerl, R, Databases.

Bioinformatics: Efficient in understanding bioinformatics tools, servers, software, and databases for big data analysis, solving various proteomics and genomics cases.

Computer-aided drug discovery: Chemoinformatics, drug discovery approaches- pharmacophore-based, docking studies for protein-protein, protein-ligand interactions.

Molecular modelling and simulation studies: Proficient in Insilico protein modelling with various techniques, dynamics studies of protein and protein-ligand complexes using software