Forum Shah
Life Sciences Project Manager
Salary / Daily rate
Paris, France
Freelance, open to permanent contract
Skills
Languages
About me
Intro
Life sciences consultant with 7+ years bridging biotechnology innovation and business strategy. Currently managing digital solutions for startups at VCLS, with expertise in synthetic biology, regulatory affairs, and R&D commercialization. Specialized in translating complex biotech concepts into scalable business opportunities for emerging ventures.
Work experience
Digital Business Solutions Manager
Voisin Consulting Life Sciences (VCLS)
Apr 2024 - Present
2 years 7 months
92100 Boulogne-Billancourt, France
Project Manager
Neighborhood: The Healthtech Innovation Program by VCLS
Apr 2023 - Mar 2024
1 year
Project Associate
Voisin Consulting Life Sciences (VCLS)
Sep 2022 - Mar 2023
7 months
92100 Boulogne-Billancourt, France
Ingénieur d'études
INRAE
Feb 2021 - Jul 2022
1 year 6 months
Jouy-en-Josas, France
Investments and Partnerships Lead
iGEM EPIC
Jan 2021 - Dec 2021
1 year
Assistante Ingénieur
INRAE
Feb 2020 - Oct 2020
9 months
Paris Area, France
Graduate Intern
ESPCI Paris
May 2019 - Jul 2019
3 months
Paris Area, France
Monitoring extracellular ROS production of neutrophils using single-cell microfluidics
INSERM
Oct 2018 - May 2019
8 months
Paris Area, France
Graduate Intern
Feb 2019 - May 2019
4 months
Paris Area, France
At IAME (Quantitative Evolutionary Microbiology Lab, INSERM UMR1137) Development of barcoded Escherichia coli cells using CRISPR-Cas9 mediated recombineering. 1. Development of barcoded libraries of 3 different E. coli strains. 2. Validate the diversity in the barcodes in the populations by deep-sequencing to cover the predicted E. coli population diversity. 3. Perform a short evolutionary experiment and then repeat the deep-sequencing to ensure that the diversity of barcodes in maintained.
Graduate Intern
Oct 2018 - Jan 2019
4 months
Paris Area, France
At INSERM U1001: OpenDD: Scaling up a synthetic biology model for tuberculosis drug screening. 1) Using bioinformatics tools to identify all conditionally essential genes in E. coli, 119 in total. 2) Systematically replacing the function of these genes with tuberculosis-derived analogs. 3) Depositing the constructed strains with the Free Genes project and make available as an open drug screening tool.
Innovation and Partnerships Manager
REDX WeSchool
Oct 2015 - Jul 2018
2 years 10 months
Mumbai Area, India
REDX (Rethinking Engineering Design eXecution) is a unique, bottom-up, co-innovation platform initiated by Prof. Ramesh Raskar, Associate Professor at the MIT Media Lab; designed to solve the most pressing challenges within our communities. The REDX-WeSchool at S. P. Mandali's Prin. L. N. Welingkar Institute of Management Development and Research (WeSchool) in Mumbai, develops technology-based, citizen-centric solutions to support growing and wide-ranging needs of the next 5 billion. The lab leverages Computational methods like Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning, Imaging technologies, mobile platforms and Internet of Things to produce innovative and patentable solutions that can be applied for improved diagnosis of health conditions, development of Smart Cities, financial inclusion, waste management, etc.
Innovator
MIT REDX
Jan 2015 - Jul 2018
3 years 7 months
Mumbai Area, India
Genetic Counselor
Mapmygenome - Wellness is in our DNA
May 2015 - Aug 2015
4 months
Mumbai Area, India
Education
Learning Planet Institute
Master's degree
2018 - 2019
2 years
D.Y. Patil University - School of Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, Navi Mumbai
M.Tech
2009 - 2014
6 years
K. J. Somaiya College of Science and Commerce
Higher Secondary Education
2007 - 2009
3 years
P. G. Garodia School (ICSE)
1996 - 2007
12 years