Vipin Arora

Dr. Vipin Arora

Director of Pharmacology

Dr. Vipin Arora has over 9 years of research experience across diverse therapeutic area space including pain, neuroscience, and immuno-oncology. Over these years he has established and validated a number of in vivo models in the labs where he has worked. He has used these models to characterize novel compounds as well as for target identification.

Dr. Arora received his PhD in Pharmacology from Panjab University, Chandigarh, India. His Ph.D. work was focused on investigating the neuro-psychopharmacological aspects of the pain-depression dyad. Subsequently he worked at Harvard Medical School, University of Maryland, and Glenmark Pharmaceuticals Ltd and gained extensive experience on multiple preclinical pharmacology models of pain, CNS behavioral models, opioid reversal and immune-oncology.

Dr. Arora has the comprehensive understanding of principles of preclinical drug development with all aspects of behavioral pharmacology. In addition, he has experience in different rodent surgeries including the AAV Injections in different regions of brain, cytokine ELISAs, HPLC, brain/spinal cord micro-dialysis, flowcytometry and immunohistochemistry. Dr Arora is very detail-oriented, solution-focused, and has a great ability to interact with multi-disciplinary drug discovery teams.

During his career, Dr. Vipin has authored or co-authored over 20 peer-reviewed articles or scientific meeting presentations.

He truly believes in Melior’s mission and drug repositioning strategy and wants to achieve excellence in pharmacology and drug discovery at Melior Discovery.

During his free time, he enjoys playing badminton, brisk walking and spending time with his family and friends.

We chose Melior Discovery because they were responsive and cost effective. We are staying with them as a chosen scientific partner because of their thoughtful scientific input to experimental design and attention to detail. Their expertise and flexibility allowed us to quickly adapt the study design and evaluate additional outcome measures to pursue unexpected activity.
Sridharan Rajamani, Ph.D., Senior Research Scientist
Gilead Sciences
I have been working with Melior on a number of projects over the course of a few years now. They have been a great partner throughout this time. The scientists whom I have worked with have been great problem-solvers and were customer focused.
Jay Lichter
Avalon Ventures
Melior provided State-of-the-art Preclinical Pharmacology Support for a period of nearly a year where a series of in vivo studies were completed on a weekly basis. The staff was extremely user-friendly and the operational processes were excellent. I can recommend Melior without reservation.
Richard DiMarchi, PhD
Cox Professor of Chemistry & Gill Chair in Biomolecular Sciences Indiana University, Department of Chemistry
Because Melior could do the orthotopic intracranial implants, we were able to do survival studies with brain tumor-bearing animals that were treated with our therapy, showing a beautiful survival with our agent versus control. Talk about something that gets your investors going! These beautiful survival curves with our agent versus control and visual photos are in all of our investor decks because… it's powerful.
Bruce Ruggeri, Ph.D.
Modifi Bio
Melior works in many therapeutic areas, like CNS, inflammatory disease, GI, cardiovascular, and oncology. I was very pleased that when it came to doing tumor studies, both subcutaneous and intracranial, they did them well. They reported on the studies on time and did the data analysis really well.
Bruce Ruggeri, Ph.D.
Modifi Bio
Their areas of expertise are extensive, and they are very experienced, responsive, and flexible in terms of how the study is run. Their pricing is reasonable, making them the best option for a young, not well-funded company like ours.
Maxine Gowen
Tamuro Bio
Melior’s team was very experienced and knowledgeable. They were always very open to suggestions and questions, spending a lot of time helping us feel comfortable with the study design. I would give them very high marks.
Maxine Gowen
Tamuro Bio
The most important factors in choosing to work with Melior were the fit between the tests they could run and our needs, as well as their tight budget and proximity. Melior was the best fit for our research goals.
Ira Spector
SFA Therapeutics