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120+ Combined Years Of Bioanalysis, On Your Calls And On Your Final Report

The team that sells a study is the team that runs it; 14 PhDs among them, every credential below.

Talk to the Bioanalytical Leads Running Your Study.

Meet them before you commit; they do not rotate after kickoff.
  • Founder-Led Since 2003, And The Scientists Who Built The Lab Still Run It
  • Practice-Area Scientists Join Your Discovery Call, Scope The Study, And Walk You Through The Quote
  • You Work Scientist To Scientist, With No Project-Manager Wall In Between
  • Behind The Leadership, A Bench Of 30+ Hand-Picked Experts Averaging 18+ Years In Industry

“We found their integrity as refreshing as readiness to provide creative scientific input and high-quality data.”

President & CSO, Biotech

Regulated And Inspected By:

  • Good Laboratory Practice for Nonclinical Laboratory Studies | NorthEast BioLab
  • Food and Drug Administration (FDA | NorthEast BioLab
  • College Of American Pathologists | NorthEast BioLab
  • International Orgaization for Standardization | NorthEast BioLab

Your Bioanalytical Bench, In Four Numbers

14 PhDs On Staff
30+ Hand-Picked Experts On Site
18+ Yrs Avg Senior Experience
80%+ Employee Retention

How The Team Assembles Around Your Bioanalytical Study

From your first note to a scoping call with the scientists who would run the study, with a response inside one business day.

  1. You write in

    A business development executive reads it and answers directly, gathers what the scientists need, and sets up a meeting that fits your timeline.

  2. The right scientists show up

    Depending on the inquiry, mass spec and chromatography, immunoassay or bioassay, the practice-area expert joins, with the scientific head as needed. You scope with the people who would run the study.

  3. The co-presidents join when you need them

    They step in wherever a program needs them: complex scoping, partnerships, escalations, or simply because you asked. The structure serves the study, not the org chart.

  4. The names do not rotate

    The scientists you meet at scoping are the names on the final report, with bioanalytical operations across both lab floors under one head.

Speak to the Whole Bioanalytical Team on One Call.

Scientists, project managers and QA together.

Bioanalytical Leaders Who Stay On Your Program

Eight names you can check before you sign, with five bios in full as a sample of the thirty-plus.

  • Vipin Agarwal

    Vipin Agarwal, PhD

    Co-President, Operations

    Co-founded the lab in 2003; 40+ years in bioanalysis, regulatory and GLP compliance.

    Full bio
    • Deputy Director, Bioanalytics at Bayer Pharmaceuticals before founding the lab in March 2003.
    • Runs operations, regulatory strategy and GLP compliance; has supported IND and NDA submissions.
    • PhD, University of New Brunswick; MBA, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
  • Abhay Pandey

    Abhay Pandey, MBA

    Co-President, Corporate & BD

    Joined in 2018 to build the business side of a science-first company, with 15+ years in strategy and corporate development, including life sciences consulting at ZS Associates.

    Full bio
    • Earlier career: Verizon corporate development, Lazard investment banking, ZS Associates consulting.
    • MBA, Duke Fuqua; BTech, IIT Kharagpur.
  • Stephen Rundlett

    Stephen Rundlett, PhD

    Head of Bioanalytical Operations

    Leads bioanalysis across ligand binding and LC-MS; 30+ years in regulated bioanalytical laboratories.

    Full bio
    • Site Director and General Manager, SGS Chicago, leading GMP testing operations.
    • VP of Bioanalysis, Precision for Medicine; Scientific Director, Intertek; Senior Director, Eurofins; earlier, EMD Millipore.
    • PhD, Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Arizona.
  • Muraly Puttabyatappa

    Muraly Puttabyatappa, PhD

    Assoc. Director, Immunoassay & Bioassay

    Biomarker, immunoassay, qPCR and cell-based assay science; on his platforms here since 2021.

    Full bio
    • NIEHS Research Fellow, University of Michigan; postdocs at Michigan and Kentucky; published endocrinology researcher.
    • PhD, University of Maryland; BVSc and MVSc.
  • Anjan Desai

    Anjan Desai, MS

    Assoc. Director, Mass Spec & Chromatography

    21+ years of analytical and bioanalytical science; at the lab since 2019. The scientific lead on small molecule scoping calls.

    Full bio
    • Previously Senior Scientist at Bureau Veritas; Team Leader at Biopharma Inc.; Team Lead Scientist at Novum, Toronto; began at Lambda, India.
    • MS, Organic Chemistry.
  • Puja Patel

    Puja Patel

    Quality Assurance Manager

    Heads the independent Quality Assurance Unit, with the lab since 2018. The person who approves the data does not answer to the person who produced it.

  • Alexa Lampasona

    Alexa Lampasona, PhD

    Business Development Executive

    Business development with a bench past: a PhD scientist who ran experiments before she scoped them.

  • Mya Johnson

    Mya Johnson

    Business Development Executive

    The first reply to many inquiries: she reads your note, gathers what the scientists need, and gets the right call set up fast.

A Practice-Area PhD For Every Assay You Send

Five of the bench shown, one per practice area; the full floor is thirty-plus strong.

  • Oscar Bate Akide Ndunge

    Oscar Bate Akide Ndunge, PhD

    ddPCR & qPCR

    PhD, University of Turin. Previously at Yale School of Medicine. 20+ years.

  • Jennifer Yang

    Jennifer Yang, MD PhD

    Flow Cytometry & ELISpot

    PhD, University of Miami. Previously at Yale Genetics and Isoplexis. 15+ years.

  • Erin O'Brien

    Erin O'Brien, PhD

    PK & PD

    PhD in Chemistry, UC Berkeley. 10+ years.

  • Shristy Tiwari

    Shristy Tiwari, PhD

    Proteomics & HRMS

    PhD, NIPER Hyderabad. Previously at Jubilant Biosys and Aurigene. 6+ years.

  • Yamini Bobde

    Yamini Bobde, PhD

    Cell-Based, ADME & DMPK

    PhD, BITS Pilani. Previously at Syngene International. 5+ years.

What Sponsors Say About The People, Verbatim

Quoted with permission, names withheld. Yours would be too.

Justifying Your Bioanalytical CRO Choice Internally?

We talk through work like yours in general terms, under confidentiality.
  • Executive Director, Pharmacokinetics

    ★★★★★

    We trust NorthEast BioLab to design and execute streamlined, impactful bioanalytical projects.

  • Sr. Dir., Bioanalytical Development & QC

    ★★★★★

    NorthEast BioLab offers a science-based, hands-on approach to the latest bioanalytical platforms.

  • SVP Quality & Compliance, Biotech

    ★★★★★

    We are thrilled to complete our bioanalytical studies with their top quality and incredibly responsive team.

  • VP, PK PD Analysis

    ★★★★★

    NorthEast BioLab always exceeds expectations on bioanalytical assay development, validation, and sample analysis.

  • Head, Bioanalytical Development

    ★★★★★

    NorthEast BioLab goes the extra mile. We look forward to more meaningful collaborations.

  • VP, Development Operations

    ★★★★★

    NorthEast BioLab's scientists deliver high-quality data on time and within budget.

Registered And Inspected By Various Regulatory Agencies

  • Good Laboratory Practice for Nonclinical Laboratory Studies | NorthEast BioLab
  • Food and Drug Administration (FDA | NorthEast BioLab
  • College Of American Pathologists | NorthEast BioLab
  • Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments | NorthEast BioLab
  • International Orgaization for Standardization | NorthEast BioLab
  • United States Drug Enforcement Administration | NorthEast BioLab

NorthEast BioLab Jobs: Learn And Grow With A Diligent Team Of Bioanalytical Experts!

Join NorthEast BioLab, a bioanalytical CRO lab based in Hamden, CT. Our team partners with a broad array of biotechnology and pharmaceutical sponsors, with openings in analytical chemistry, biochemistry, quality assurance and project management at various experience levels.

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