[Speaker] Kalpana Barnes - Manager, Cell Imaging Applications, Sartorius
Kalpana is a highly experienced industrial pharmacologist with over 25 years of experience
gained from pharmaceutical (GlaxoSmithKline), contract research and BioTech
(BioFocus, Argenta, Essen BioScience) laboratories.
Trained initially as an in vitro pharmacologist,
Kalpana specialized in designing and developing plate-based cellular assays to support automated
High-Throughput Screening, Compound Profiling, and mechanism of action follow-up studies.
Within Sartorius, she¡¯s applied her extensive experience to the development and validation of cellular assays
for quantitative live-cell analysis and currently leads an R&D team focused on the development of
advanced cellular models for oncology.