About

Passion fuels purpose.

Bioinformatician and computational physicist working at the point where quantum-scale simulation, structural biology, and machine learning meet drug discovery.

Biography

I'm Pritam — a bioinformatician and researcher specializing in drug design, molecular modelling, AI-driven protein design, NGS, multi-omics, and workflow management. Originally from Odisha, India, now based in the Bay Area.

I hold a PhD in Physics from Uppsala University, specializing in Atomic, Molecular and Condensed Matter Physics, where my research bridged quantum and biological phenomena — culminating in GENOME2QUNOME, a framework for interfacing molecules with nanomaterials.

Today I'm a Postdoctoral Scholar in the Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine at Stanford University School of Medicine, designing novel anesthetics suited to battlefield conditions. The work combines AI-driven protein design with high-throughput virtual screening to compress the discovery timeline.

Whether the input is a genomic dataset, a protein structure, or a pipeline nobody can reproduce, the commitment is the same: analytical precision and data you can trust.

Pritam Kumar Panda presenting at the Stanford Anesthesiology awards symposium
Stanford Anesthesiology research symposium, June 2026
Sunnyvale, California

Recent honour

First prize, Best Basic Science Abstract.

Awarded a Research Award for Best Basic Science Abstract by the Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine at Stanford University School of Medicine, for the poster presentation on AI-driven anesthetic design — June 1, 2026.

Stanford University School of Medicine

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Years of research

Toolkit

What I actually use.

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Structure & simulation

  • AlphaFold2/3
  • Boltz2
  • RFdiffusion
  • GROMACS
  • OpenMM
  • AutoDock-GPU
  • Vina
  • Glide
  • Schrödinger
  • FEP
  • Metadynamics
  • RDKit
  • ChimeraX

Genomics & omics

  • WES / WGS
  • RNA-seq
  • scRNA-seq
  • ATAC-seq
  • GATK
  • BWA-MEM
  • STAR
  • VEP / ANNOVAR
  • Multi-omics
  • Immunoinformatics

ML & agents

  • PyTorch
  • JAX
  • scikit-learn
  • Hugging Face
  • Claude Code
  • ReAct agents
  • Tool-calling
  • Evals
  • Dataset curation

Infrastructure

  • Nextflow
  • Snakemake
  • Docker
  • Singularity
  • HPC / SLURM
  • AWS
  • CUDA
  • CI/CD
  • Next.js
  • REST APIs
  • R / Shiny
  • Python

Physics

  • DFT
  • VASP
  • SIESTA / TranSIESTA
  • Electronic transport
  • 2D materials
  • Quantum chemistry

Experience

Where the work happened.

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  • 01

    Postdoctoral Scholar

    Stanford University

    Jan 2025 — Present

    California, USA

    Advanced a DoD/DARPA anesthesia program to Phase II clinical trials by architecting an AI-driven drug discovery platform that screened 2.5B small molecules and generated 100,000+ AlphaFold-based receptor conformations. Cut experimental candidate testing 60% with GPU-accelerated simulation coupled to active-learning docking triage and ADMET/QSAR profiling.

  • 02

    Scientific Advisor

    Revilico, Inc.

    2025 — Present

    Remote

    Architected Revilico's core computational drug-discovery platform — GPU-accelerated, production-grade simulation infrastructure uniting docking, FEP, GROMACS, ADMET/QSAR, NVIDIA Parabricks, multi-omics, and quantum-chemistry workflows into a single operating system for drug discovery, built from the ground up with Claude-based agentic tooling.

  • 03

    Jul 2023 — Dec 2024

    Heidelberg, Germany

    Resolved ~20 client-facing technical issues daily and improved pipeline reliability by designing reproducible multi-omics workflows across HPC for WES/WGS/RNA-seq/scRNA-seq/ATAC-seq, automating NGS analysis with the DKFZ One Touch Pipeline database.

  • 04

    Jul 2023 — Dec 2024

    Mainz, Germany

    Implemented the HI-TRON data portal backend and frontend, improving data accessibility through MOLGENIS, Vue.js and FAIR practices, and gathered requirements from biologists, trial designers, and clinicians.

  • 05

    Bioinformatics Consultant

    Colgate-Palmolive

    Nov 2021 — Jun 2023

    Piscataway, NJ, USA

    Developed a combinatorial synergy-based drug design pipeline targeting photoaging and hyperpigmentation, leading to a peer-reviewed publication. Focused on Computer-Aided Drug Design (CADD) methodology.

  • 06

    Founder & CEO

    Nerdalytics

    Dec 2021 — Jul 2023

    Uppsala, Sweden

    Founded a bioinformatics consultancy for the pharmaceutical industry, owning strategy, policy, and financial planning. Led budgeting, coordination, and delivery of confidential pharma projects from scope definition through to deliverables.

  • 07

    Hackathon Organizer

    LongHack

    Jun 2021 — Sep 2022

    Helsinki, Finland

    Organized two international longevity hackathons, mentoring participants and building connections across the scientific and entrepreneurial communities.

  • 08

    Clinical Consultant

    Breath of Health

    Nov 2021 — Dec 2022

    Cambridge, MA, USA

    Built machine learning models and NGS pipelines for automated analysis of exhaled breath samples, supporting clinical and bioinformatics analysis that contributed to successful funding acquisition.

  • 09

    Bioinformatics Consultant

    Inflanova AB

    Aug 2021 — Mar 2023

    Stockholm, Sweden

    Applied multi-omics and bioinformatics approaches to vaccine design and therapeutic intervention. Filed patent WO2023217787 for a clinical vaccine candidate targeting antiviral therapy.

  • 10

    Affiliated Researcher

    Karolinska Institute

    Mar 2021 — Mar 2023

    Stockholm, Sweden

    Produced 2 peer-reviewed publications and 1 US patent by developing predictive clinical ML models for patient stratification from genomic and antibody-profiling data. Engineered immunoinformatics pipelines processing 2TB+ multimodal clinical datasets, enabling 3 ongoing clinical trials.

  • 11

    Doctoral Researcher

    Uppsala University

    Nov 2018 — Mar 2023

    Uppsala, Sweden

    Originated GENOME2QUNOME, the first quantum-to-biological modelling framework, bridging DFT-based 2D-material simulation with atomistic modelling for nanopore sensing and bio-inspired materials. Informed material selection for industry partner Hitachi ABB through ab initio electronic and thermal-transport studies.

  • 12

    Sep 2017 — Oct 2018

    Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany

    Cut manual runtime 70% and improved alignment speed 2.5× by engineering high-throughput WES/WGS variant-calling pipelines processing 200+ clinical samples/month with HPC parallelization. Co-authored a Nature Medicine publication on clonal hematopoiesis trajectories with the European MDS Working Group.

  • 13

    Jan 2017 — Present

    California, USA

    In-depth tutorials on bioinformatics tools, techniques, and software for beginners through to advanced users.

Education

Physics, then biology.

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042009 — 2012

B.Sc, Bioinformatics

Utkal University, Bhubaneswar, India

Molecular modelling, drug design, biophysics

Recognition

  • Elected Member, Sigma Xi
  • Nextflow Ambassador
  • First Prize — Best Basic Science Abstract, Stanford (2026)
  • US patent WO2023217787
  • 100+ peer reviews across 30+ journals
  • Invited speaker, 5+ international summits
AI-driven drug discoveryMolecular dynamicsFree-energy perturbationAlphaFold3 · Boltz2Multi-omicsNextflow · SnakemakeGPU / HPCAgentic scientific toolingProtein designVariant calling