Chitkala Kalidas, Ph.D., Director, Global Strategic Regulatory Development, Merck & Co.
Dr. Chitkala Kalidas is a Director in Global Strategic Regulatory Development at Merck & Company, USA. Dr. Kalidas is responsible for developing worldwide regulatory strategies for drug development programs. Her previous responsibilities at Merck included leading a group for clinical development operations planning, portfolio planning and prioritization for Merck’s late stage pipeline and resource planning for multinational clinical trials.
Prior to joining Merck, Dr. Kalidas worked as a Management Consultant at the Boston Consulting Group in New York. Dr. Kalidas has a PhD in Microbiology from Cornell University, Ithaca, NY.