Visiting Associate
U.S. Food and Drug Administration
Dr. Chekka Lakshmi Manasa Sakuntala is currently working as a Visiting Associate with the U.S. FDA, in the Division of Applied Regulatory Sciences, Center for Drug Evaluation and Research. She earned her PharmD from Manipal University, India, and a PhD in Clinical Pharmaceutical Sciences from University of Florida. Her dissertation was focused on cardiovascular pharmacogenomics/epigenomics and biomarker discovery. She is currently working on identifying pharmacodynamic biomarkers to support biosimilar development programs at the FDA. She has been an active member of ASCPT since 2018 and currently serving as the Chair of Biomarkers and Translational Tools community of ASCPT, a Steering Committee Member of the Webinar Committee, has been appointed as the Editorial Board member of the CTS journal (part of the ASCPT journal family) and has been awarded the Top Reviewer Badge for the year 2022.