Biography:

Dr. Nalini Kumari’s career spans over 11 years in medicine, consulting, and pharma research. She brings her comprehensive knowledge to accelerate the clinical development process by designing and implementing innovative, adaptive, platform trials and clinical studies across all therapeutic areas. Currently, she is working at Apollo Sugar Clinics as Senior Manager, Medical Affairs & Research, where she is responsible for conducting scientific studies for various therapeutics areas and medical products. In this role, she also oversees clinical partnerships, strategic CRO relationship.

Before this, Dr. Nalini served as a Head of Clinical Pharmacology and Principal Investigator at rapidly growing ZenRise CRO at Hyderabad. Here she partnered with various global pharma companies for their Phase-II, III, and Phase-IV trials, also did clinical research/ pharma consulting services. She has also worked with Sipra Labs as Principal Investigator and Site Monitor and has led numerous research studies and projects. In the past, Dr.Nalini has worked in various government and private hospitals (namely, E.S.I. Hospital - Nagpur, Jharkhand Govt. P.H.C. – Jamshedpur, Apollo Hospital – Hyderabad, etc.) as Medical Officer and Consulting Physician.

Dr. Nalini has obtained M.D. (Pharmacology) degree from Government Medical College (GMC), Nagpur, one of the premier medical institutions of India. She did her M.B.B.S. from Rajendra Institute of Medical Science (RIMS), Ranchi. She has experience driving initiatives that impact global processes, people, and technology, which creates value for external partners and the company.