Sajeev Cherian has a BA in Biology from the University of Pennsylvania and an MS in Information Systems from DePaul University. For six years he was involved in drug discovery research at the University of Michigan and at Abbott Laboratories. Since 2000 he has been a project manager responsible for identifying and implementing information systems to support pharmaceutical R&D. His interests are in technologies that can promote drug discovery and development and in collaborative systems. Sajeev began doctoral work in Business Information Technologies in September 2005.