Ishita Mallick

• Product manager for 2 products (target identification and antibody-drug conjugate)
• Periodic assessments and initiatives to enhance and optimize existing features in pipeline
• Orchestrated collaboration between diverse teams including data scientists and data engineers to ensure seamless execution of ideas
• Demonstrated proficiency in project management tools such as JIRA software to meticulously track tasks, allocate resources, and manage timelines
• Successfully optimized workflows to enhance efficiency and productivity in feature development
• Effectively communicates impact and value proposition of developed features, fostering buy-in and support for product initiatives

Key achievement in product development:

• Managed and developed target identification pipeline along with technical experts and automated manual efforts to reduce run time of pipeline from several month's time to few weeks
• Developed world's 2nd largest database of antibody-drug conjugates (UI under development)
• Supervised and trained team of 30 people by conducting weekly sessions related to personality development, basic excel skills, PowerPoint presentations, client management
• Guided ideation of linker prediction model for antibody-drug conjugate product

Client deliveries and pipeline developments

• Successfully led 6 client projects related to disease expansion and prioritization and target identification
• Initiated and prepared base pipeline for development of pharma company pipeline drug review to identify and recommend failed drug assets
• Risk-mitigation and proposal plans related to ontology issues

Project development & delivery:

• Sub-lead of target identification module
• Developed and presented more than 20 domain case studies on AI generated hypotheses to clients
• Automation planning and execution for target identification module: Supervised team of 5 people to build pipeline for delivering target identification projects
• Guided and automated more than 5 disease and target relevant parameters which was integrated as part of weightage-based scoring system in target identification pipeline
• Insight generation & validation: Assessment of a highly modular disease-target association library using biomedical literature and external analysis tools
• Project effort estimation and SOP preparation: Fairly experienced in task generation and allocation on JIRA
• Experienced in preparing gantt chart for planning milestone deliveries
• Experienced in preparing SOPs of several drug discovery modules.

• Trained and led team of 10 junior knowledge associates to provide support in client deliverables
• Contributed to quality enhancement of backend knowledge required for commercial products and projects delivered to pharmaceutical clients
• Worked on more than 2000 physician & hospitals data to remove name normalization issues and prepare standard training datasets for machine learning models
• Enriched information and solved issues pertaining to biomedical literatures comprising of publications, clinical trials, news, patents, thesis & grants.

• Literature review of asset classes like publication, clinical trials, patents, news, grants
• Worked in data curation and validation team to curate information related to authors and affiliations and correctness of data ported on proprietary platform
• Sentiment analysis of life science data on proprietary platform
• Worked on data cleaning and normalization related to drug names
• Key opinion leader (KoL) data curation and validation from congresses
• Internal product validation to check data correctness and accuracy