Dr. Chaudhuri has over 15 years experience in oncology target discovery and validation at Genentech Inc, InpharmaticaInc, and CuraGen Corporation. He holds a Ph.D. in Biochemistry from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore and did his Post Doctoral work at Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School and at the Department of Molecular & Cellular Biology, Harvard University. His graduate and post-graduate research was to understand the molecular and biochemical basis of cell surface receptor signaling, cellular metabolism and establishment and maintenance of cellular polarity. He has co-authored several papers in Science and Nature.