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Siddarth Satish

American, 23, BioE Grad Student at Berkeley/UCSF/Stanford

Headline: Entrepreneur
Industries: Biotech, Cleantech, Health, Nanotech
Skills: Chemical Engineering, Design, Entrepreneurship, French, Leadership, Patents, Public speaking
Location: Berkeley, CA
Groups: 2011 UC Berkeley Business Plan Competition, 2012 UC Berkeley Startup Competition, BASES E-Challenge 2012, Silicon Valley Boomer Venture Business Plan Competition 2011 , ST@B: Startup @ Berkeley, UC Berkeley Business Plan Competition 2009-2010, [INACTIVE] BASES E-Challenge 2010
Visas: US Citizen
Interested in: Brainstorming, Consulting opportunities, Meeting new people, Participating in a competition
Tags: Bioengineering, chemical engineering, drug delivery, Medical Device Design, microfluidics, molecular simulation
Schools: Stanford University, University of California System - Berkeley, University of California System - San Francisco

FEATURED STARTUP

BrightSense

BrightSense BrightSense

Personalized and Pain-Free Dental Drug Delivery Platform, entering $1B Market for Tooth Whitening; 1st Place (Products) & Public Choice Award at 2010 Berkeley Bplan Competition, Finalist at 2010 Silicon Valley Boomer Venture Summit

  • Startup type: Competition Entry
  • Status: Active
  • Stage: Prototyping

WORK EXPERIENCE

Employer: DEPT. OF CHEMICAL/BIOMOLECULAR ENGINEERING, UC BERKELEY
Position: RESEARCHER - THE CHU GROUP
Time period: May 2007 - Present
Description: "Coarse-grained Modeling and Simulation of Fluids at the Nanoscale" (2008-present)
Advisors: Prof. Jhih-Wei Chu and Dr. Nikolaos K. Voulgarakis

* Performed MD simulations, Coarse Graining, and Force Field development for nanofluids
* Derived new analytical formulae in field of Fluctuating Hydrodynamics (stochastic Navier-Stokes)
* Developed a novel framework for characterizing emergent nanoscale viscoelasticity of fluids
* Co-authored publications in J. Chem. Phys. and Mol. Simul. and presented at conferences
* Modeling/Quant platforms: CHARMM, NAMD, MATLAB

"Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Collagen Triple Helix" (2007-9)
Advisor: Prof. Jhih-Wei Chu

* Conducted preliminary MD study on dynamics of triple helix conformations
* Performed MD simulations and post-processing analysis of trajectories
* Produced force-extension curves at various temperatures and compared simulation results of 7-2 and 10-3 helical conformations

Employer: GILEAD SCIENCES, INC
Position: R&D INTERN - DRUG MODELING GROUP
Time period: May 2009 - August 2009
Description: * Computer-aided Modeling study on Molecular Docking and Scoring of HCV Protease
Inhibiitors
* Used over 7 molecular modeling and combinatorial chemistry software packages to
design an optimal workflow for efficiently screening promising drug candidates and
validated workflows with results from experimental assays
* Presented work at department-wide research seminar
* Results were published at the 2010 National Meeting of American Chemical Society
(ACS)
* Modeling platforms include: DS2.5, Maestro, SYBYL, GOLD, Glide, LigFit

Employer: GILEAD SCIENCES, INC.
Position: R&D INTERN - CHEMICAL INFORMATICS GROUP
Time period: May 2008 - August 2008
Description: * Designed and implemented LitTracker, an internal online database system for indexing, management, sharing, and search of scientific journal articles across multiple groups.
* LitTracker has been in service for 2 years and currently supports >1000 relevant research documents for Medicinal Chemistry department
* Software: C#, SQL, PipelinePilot

EDUCATION

University: Stanford University
Time period: 2010 - 2011
Degree: Visiting Graduate Student

University: University of California System - Berkeley
Time period: 2006 - 2010
Degree: Chemical Engineering, BSc

University: University of California System - San Francisco
Time period: 2010 - Present
Degree: Bioengineering, MSc

University: University of California System - Berkeley
Time period: 2010 - Present
Degree: Bioengineering, MSc

PUBLICATIONS

Papers: N.K. Voulgarakis*, S. Satish*, and J.-W. Chu, “Modeling the Viscoelasticity and Thermal Fluctuations of Fluids at the Nanoscale,” Molecular Simulation, 36: 7, 552 — 559 (*co-first author)

N.K. Voulgarakis, S. Satish, and J.-W. Chu, “Modeling the Nanoscale Viscoelasticity of Fluids by Bridging non-Markovian Fluctuating Hydrodynamics and Molecular Dynamics Simulations,” J. Chem. Phys. 131, 234115 (2009)

S. Satish, H. Ching, R. Dedhia, N.K. Voulgarakis, T.D. Johnson, and C.J. Radke. “Modeling Peroxide Release Dynamics and Pulp Penetration during Tooth-Bleaching Procedures,” J. Dent. Res. 89 (Spec Iss A):0124 (2010)

M. McGregor, S. Swaminathan, X. Chen, J. Perry, U. Schmitz, and S. Satish, “Computational challenges in lead optimization of HCV protease inhibition,” Abstracts of Papers, 239th ACS National Meeting, Division of Computers in Chemistry, Drug Discovery, San Francisco, CA, March 21-25, 2010
Patents: S. Satish et. al. “Methods for Personalizing Drug Delivery from a Dental Drug Release Apparatus,” U.S. Patent Application (Pending)

INFORMATION

Hobbies: Jazz Drums
Memberships: American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE)
International Association for Dental Research (IADR)
Awards: Ergonomics Graduate Fellowship, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
Bioengineering Graduate Fellowship, University of California, Berkeley
Alumni Scholar, University of California, Berkeley
1st Place, Products & Services, 2010 Berkeley Business Plan Competition
People's Choice Award, 2010 Berkeley Business Plan Competition
Finalist, 2010 Silicon Valley Boomer Venture Business Plan Competition
1st Place, 2009 BeAVC Venture Capital Case Competition

Siddarth's Startups (1)

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  • BrightSense

    Personalized and Pain-Free Dental Drug Delivery Platform, entering $1B Market for Tooth Whitening; 1st Place (Products) & Public Choice Award at 2010 Berkeley Bplan Competition, Finalist at 2010 Silicon Valley Boomer Venture Summit

Siddarth's Contacts (4)

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  • Kirsten Berzon

    Program Manager at the Lester Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley

  • Alan Yiu

    Pursuing Ph.D in Chemical Engineering at UC Berkeley. BS in Chemical Engineering from Stanford in 2007. Work experience: ENVIRON Intl., Corp.; ALZA; NASA-Ames Center for Nanotechnology.

  • Laura Mendoza

    Chemical engineer from ITESO, Master in Science in Biotechnology, working on my PhD and my own company Unima Integral Biosecurity. World traveller but always expecting to be back home.

  • Philip Roybal

    Graduate in B.S.E.E. / C.S from U.C. Berkeley (1968), Microprocessor Marketing Group Manager at National Semiconductor (1973-1978), Various Marketing at Apple (1978-1990), Owner at Roybal Associates, V.P. Marketing at ServiceInfinity since Dec