Hello! I'm Pritam

Exploring the finer details of life. I provide a solution-oriented integrative approach to scientific problems and interpret the outcomes in pertinent discipline-specific questions.I now understand the intricate challenges in life sciences and foresee numerous opportunities to delve into.

Phone:

Pritam Kumar Panda

Chairman & CEO of Nerdalytics

Research Scientist

+46-72-161-3913

Email:

pritampkp15@gmail.com

Address:

Flogstavagen 33C,

Uppsala, Sweden, 75273

Affiliation

Uppsala University

EXPERIENCE

2018-present

Doctoral student

UPPSALA UNIVERSITY, SWEDEN

Supervisor: Prof. Rajeev Ahuja & Prof. Yogendra Kumar Mishra
QUNOMES: QUantum NanOstructured Materials for Energy Scavenging and Storage: Application of Two-Dimensional Materials in Next-Generation Batteries, Biosensing, and Healthcare

2D materials for Sensing (Biosensing) and Nanogenerators
Biophysics and Biomedical Applications of Nanomaterials
Molecular dynamics simulation of 3D Nano-materials with biological entities: Interaction mechanism
Data-driven Machine Learning (ML) approach (e) Exploring tunable electrode materials and electrolytes
Nano-Bioinformatics with Zebrafish models defining mechanism of ROS and Apoptosis using bioinformatics aspects.

2021-present

KAROLINSKA INSTITUET, SWEDEN

Affiliated Researcher

Supervisor: Prof. Johan Frostegård

Vaccine project for Rheumatoid Arthritis and Cardiovascular diseases
Phorylcholine nd Malondialdehyde interaction with anti-bodies in 60 years patients
Annexin with antibodies interactions
Conjugation of antibodies with carrier proteins

2017-2018

Graduate Scientist

UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER, FREIBURG, GERMANY

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Marcin Wlodarski

Whole exome sequencing of 217 patients with a variant calling automated pipeline established by me using bash script.
Machine learning approach to validate whole exome data for 1% somatic clones.
Validation of various scoring systems e.g. CADD, REVEL, MetaSVM, Phylop, GERP++RS to annotate the variants obtained from Whole exome data for MDS related disorders.
Established a pipeline on NEBNext Direct clinical cancer hotspot panel for clinical diagnostic.
Developed a dynamic circos plot for the visualization of mutational variations using bash script.
Experience with bioinformatics tools for aligning, genome annotation, and functional analysis and with existing highthroughput sequencing tools, including GATK (Germline and Somatic SNV analysis), SAMtools, BEDtools, BWA, Bowtie, Picard, ANNOVAR, VEP, VCFAnno & SNPEff
Complex genotyping - development and improve algorithms for statistical analysis of paired-end read data togenotype highly polymorphic genes and novel genes
SNP analysis and mixture deconvolution - apply best practice statistical/computational methods to analyze largescale sequencing data to identify SNPs and identify samples of Non-Finnish European Populations

INDUSTRY EXPERIENCE

INDUSTRY

2021-present

Scientific Consultant

COLGATE-PALMOLIVE, USA

Working as a scientific consultant and managing a project that requires bioinformatics and computational biology skills, and provide new ways of supporting products of Colgate business partners.

2021-present

LONGHACK, FINLAND

Organizer and Scientific Mentor

Organized a hackathon in the field of longevity and served as a scientific mentor to the teams that participated. Also managed to provide consultancy for the scientific challenges framed during the hackathon.

2021-present

Scientific Consultant

INFLANOVA, SWEDEN

Working as a scientific consultant for a vaccine project initiated by Karolinska partners. Also, providing services to Karolinska partners with my computational skills via Inflanova.