Snehal Gite

• Developed, designed, and implemented R&D strategies aligned with commercial strategies since 2018.
• Successfully collaborated with academics, industry professionals across EU and Ireland.
• Successfully managed 8- R&D projects within specified budgets, and timelines.
• Continuous process improvement and optimization of parameters e.g., ultra-filtration, nano-filtration, diafiltration, evaporation, spray drying, mill drying, anti-caking, wastewater treatment, and odour abatement
• Worked directly with Quality and Operations to achieve improvement in personal accountability on key program timelines
• · Provided technical support for quality control audits e.g., HACCP, SFPA, DAFM.
• Provided technical support to sales & marketing teams and customer audits
• Designed preclinical and clinical trials: bio-availability, bio-accessibility, satiety, weight management, digestive health, antioxidant, anti-diabetic, anti-inflammatory, muscular health, etc.
• Communicated scientific and commercial findings to various stakeholders, board members, customers
• Successfully delivered customer-focused R&D projects and secured premium prices for novel ingredients.
  
  

• Designed and completed animal cell culture and animal studies
• Successfully standardized bioassays: RT-qPCR, ELISA, Microencapsulation of omega-3-rich oil
• Provided training to research students and postdocs
• Successfully applied and achieved approvals from HPRA (The Health Products Regulatory Authority) and Institutional Animal Ethics Committee for proposed animal trial
• Published 3 research papers in highly peer-reviewed journals with high impact factors.
• Prepared documentation to secure intellectual property and commercialize scientific findings.

• Developed four functional food formulations for specific health claims
• Compiled database to integrate current science with traditional Ayurvedic medicines, nutrition, and health practices
• Successfully developed NPD strategies to add value to existing formulations to justify respective health claims

• Successfully managed project: "Ensuring Human Health, Food, and Nutritional Security through Novel Cereal and fruit-based prebiotics".
• Standardized bio-analytical methods for estimation of nutritional and anti-nutritional factors in food grains
• Successfully screened raked newly developed cultivars of pearl millets based on their functional activities
• Presented scientific findings to respective stakeholder
• Provided training and technical support to researchers from Africa and Sri-Lanka
  
  

• Taught six-theory and two practical courses to B.Sc. and M.Sc. students
• Guided Masters students for dissertation projects
• Courses taught: Advanced Biological Chemistry; Fundamentals of Biological Chemistry; Biophysics & Instrumentation; Practicals in Chemistry & Biochemistry; Molecular Biology; Metabolic Pathways and Environmental Sciences

Completed 3-undersigned projects.

• Project-1: Directorate of Sorghum Research Institute Project: Profiling of nutritional and antinutritional factors from sorghum cultivars. (Nov 2010- Mar 2012)
• Project-2: DBT Project: Development of antioxidant-enriched prebiotic food supplements using indigenous plant materials and assessing their multi-functionality. (Jan 2008- Sept 2010)
• Pre-clinical trial 1: Anti-glycating activity assessment
• Pre-clinical trial 2: Prebiotic activity assessment
• Pre-clinical trial 3: Hepatoprotective activity assessment
• Project-3: Effect of micronutrient status and Sudarshan Kriya Yoga on student learning ability and their mental stress (Clinical Trial). (July 2006- June 2007)

Research work was published in 8-peer peer-reviewed international research papers , one book chapter and one Indian patent.

• Successfully completed phytochemical profiling of 6-medicinal plants with complete mass balancing
• Performed qualitative and quantitative analysis of active principles: alkaloids, saponins, sapogenins, glycosides, terpenes, essential oils, tannins, polyphenols, anthocyanin, and amino acids using TLC and HPTLC