Kalpana is a manager within the Cell Imaging Applications unit of BioAnalytics at Sartorius AG. She is a highly experienced industrial pharmacologist with over 25 years of experience gained from pharmaceutical (GlaxoSmithKline), contract research and Biotechnology (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.