Mohammad Asad

Mohammad Asad

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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About

I am the Business Development Director, Asia-Pacific at Scendea, playing a pivotal role in bringing innovative Pharmaceutical and Biotechnology products to market. I have a decade of experience in the Life Sciences industry in the functions of Regional Sales Manager and Medical Device Manager at Cencora PharmaLex, various R&D functions including Bayer, and Co-founding HapTech Medical Pty Ltd a medical device start-up in the breast cancer space.

I am passionate about the advancement of healthcare for the betterment of patient outcomes. In parallel to my role at Scendea, I am a guest lecturer at the University of Sydney and appointed Australian Chair of the Asia Regulatory Professional Association. I hold degrees in Biomedical Engineering and Mechanical Engineering offered in conjunction from Australia, the US, and Singapore.

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Experience

  • Scendea Graphic

    Scendea

    Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

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    Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

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    Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

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    Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

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    Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

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    Sydney, Australia

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    Sydney, Australia

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    Sydney, Australia

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    Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

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    Kuwait

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    Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

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    Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

Education

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    Honours Thesis: 92%

    Titled: Detection of breast cancerous tissue utilizing elastic modulus

    Key Achievements:
    - Developed Minimally Viable Product.
    - Secured Pre-seed funding.
    - Co-founded HapTech Medical Pty Ltd.
    - Performed Initial clinical data collection and negotiated Pilot clinical trials.

  • Study abroad

  • GPA: 3.8/4.0
    Awarded Academic Excellence Prize (1st amongst cohort)
    Dean's list

  • Professional Workplace acumen including: Report Crafting, Presentation Delivery, Communication, and Business acumen

Licenses & Certifications

  • Certificate IV in Business Graphic

    Certificate IV in Business

    Engineers Australia

    Issued
  • Global Medical Device Regulations

    ARPA - Asia Regulatory Professional Association

    Issued
    Credential ID MDRC-tw140002
  • Advanced Open Water Diver Graphic

    Advanced Open Water Diver

    PADI

  • ARCS Professional Member Graphic

    ARCS Professional Member

    ARCS Australia

  • Certified CCL Interpreter, Arabic <> English Graphic

    Certified CCL Interpreter, Arabic <> English

    NAATI

  • Standard First Aid, CPR and AED Graphic

    Standard First Aid, CPR and AED

    PADI

Honors & Awards

  • NSW International Student of the Year Award

    The University of Sydney

    Selected to represent The University of Sydney for the NSW 2017 International Student of the Year.
    The University of Sydney's review panel selects 1 out of 25,000 potential nominees once every 4 years for this prestigious award.

  • Westmead Hospital MedTech Forum Warren Center Award

    The Warren Center || The University of Sydney

  • Freshman Academic Excellence Award

    University of Pittsburgh

    Annually awarded to the highest achieving freshman based on academic progress and engineering faculty nominations.

  • Deans Honor list

    University of Pittsburgh

  • Panther Academic Scholarship

    University of Pittsburgh

    Awarded based on academic merit: USD 32,000

  • Vice-Chancellor’s International Scholarship

    The University of Sydney

    Awarded to distinguished students based on high academic merit and professional involvements: AUD 20,000

Languages

  • Arabic

    Native or bilingual proficiency

  • English

    Native or bilingual proficiency

Organizations

  • PITT Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES)

    Webmaster

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    - Stepped back from my engagement as VP of BMES to work and study abroad. - Proposed restructuring the team and created a dedicated webmaster role to maintain a website for the organization. The first version of the website (I created) is found here: http://mohammadalhajasad.wixsite.com/pittbmes2015-2016 The current version is linked: www.pittbmes.com

  • PITT DesignHub. Previously, Engineers for Sustainable Medical Development

    Design Team Co-CEO

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    - Worked in collaboration with an ENT clinician from the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) to ideate, conceptualize, and develop a fully functional Surgical Safety Shut-off Device to reduce medical device misuse casualties in the OR. - Medical device's efficacy and safety were key considerations throughout the product's lifecycle. - Final stages of development filing a provisional patent

  • PITT Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES)

    Vice President

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    - Overseeing Pitt BMES student chapter; - First point of contact between the biomedical engineering community and the Swanson School of Engineering faculty. - Allocating tasks to the board members and reporting back to the bioengineering director and the BMES president as well as organizing events, introducing engaging general body meeting ideas, and requesting additional student visitor positions to the BMES annual national conference.

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