Vice President
Bristol-Myers Squibb
Skilman, New Jersey
Binodh DeSilva. Ph.D. Vice President, Lead Discovery & Optimization at Bristol Myers Squibb Company in Princeton, NJ. She leads the high throughput screening, lead optimization, reagent generation in the small molecule discovery organization. Dr. DeSilva has extensive experiences in the drug discovery and development, from early discovery, through preclinical and clincial research to CMC analytical. She received her Bachelor’s in Analytical Chemistry from the University of Colombo, Sri Lanka, Ph.D. in Chemistry (Bioanalytical) from the University of Kansas, Post-Doctoral training in the Pharmaceutical Chemistry Department at the University of Kansas. She was at Procter & Gamble Pharmaceuticals, Norwich, New York, and at Amgen, Thousand Oaks, CA leading the bioanalytical teams.
Dr. DeSilva is the Past President of AAPS. She is a member of the American Chemical Society, Association for Women in Science, and the Health Care Business Women’s Association. She has received many awards and accolades 2020 AAPS Distinguished Service Award, the 2020 Sino-American Professionals Association Distinguished Achievement Award, 2018 HBA Luminary. Her passion is to solve analytical problems and to inspire junior scientists to unleash their full potential. She has a Professional Certificate from the International Coaching Federation (ICF) Accredited Coach Training Program (ACTP) / Level 2.
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Tuesday, October 18, 2022
9:00 AM – 10:00 AM ET