Ritu Tripathi is a Senior Project Manager of External Scientific Affairs at CytoSorbents. She is a PhD in biotechnology from Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology, India. She obtained her postdoc experience at Rutgers University, NJ in the area of biomaterials and nanomaterials for various biomedical applications. She has an extensive background in fabrication of biomaterials, synthesis and application of nanomaterials and benchtop evaluation of medical device for drug/cytokine removal purposes. She has published more than 20 articles in peer reviewed journals of high impact factor.