Rasika Nawimanage PhD Teva Pharmaceuticals

Rasika Nawimanage is a downstream process development scientist at Teva Pharmaceuticals, West Chester, Pennsylvania, USA. She has led downstream process developments of early and late phase monoclonal antibody programs, process characterization studies, and also supported tech transfer and regulatory filings. In addition, she also serves as her department's SME in downstream viral clearance design and execution. She has led multiple viral clearance studies to support regulatory filings and is currently working on improving viral clearance knowledge management within her downstream team and standardizing a platform approach for virus clearance studies. Rasika Nawimanage holds a PhD in chemistry from Louisiana State University, Louisiana, USA, and has completed her post-doctoral work at Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA.