Raghavan Venkat (Venkat in short) leads the Cell Culture and Fermentation Sciences team, Bioprocess technologies and engineering team, as well as the Flu MS&T team within Biopharmaceutical Development (BPD) at AstraZeneca.  Venkat obtained his B. Tech. degree in Chemical Engineering at Anna University, Chennai, India and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Chemical Engineering at The Ohio State University, in the US. Venkat has worked in the biopharmaceutical industry for over 25 years and has been with MedImmune / AstraZeneca for 15+ years.