Namrata Jayanth, PhD

Research Leader at Charles River Laboratories

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Namrata Jayanth, PhD, is a Research Leader in the Biotherapeutics Drug Discovery Division at Charles River Laboratories, The Netherlands, with over 15 years of experience in cancer cell biology, in vitro pharmacology, and drug discovery. She specializes in integrated drug discovery and preclinical development of therapeutic antibodies and small molecules for oncology and immunology portfolios. Before joining Charles River Laboratories, Namrata served as Discovery Biology Team Lead at Bristol Myers Squibb Research Centre. Her academic career includes postdoctoral research at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA, focusing on regulatory proteins and gene editing, as well a joint post-doctoral fellowship on cancer signaling pathways at University of Cambridge, UK and InStem, India. Namrata earned her PhD in Biochemistry and Biophysics from Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), India.