Drug Design & Drug Formulation

Biography

Anand has over 14 years of research experience in the pharmaceutical industry including generics and New Chemical Entities (NCE) development, scale up, technology transfer, registration, where he was involved in the overall end to end project management. He is currently working as a Director and Head of Formulation Development at BioDuro and supporting Yangtze River Pharmaceutical Group for formulation related technologies. Prior to joining BioDuro Anand worked over 7 years as a Director of Pharmaceutical Development Services at WuXi AppTec, Shanghai. In this role he was involved in building the formulation development team and infrastructure to support various dosage form development and pilot scale manufacturing. He also worked with over 35 global clients and over 120 projects to support various stages of clinical development. He was involved as a key SME for successful MPA (EU), US-FDA and C-FDA site inspections for GMP. He was also involved in successfully implementing several key technology platforms including microdoser, hot melt extrusion (HME), bilayer tableting, spray drying etc. He has received “Best team management” award in the year 2013. He is a recipient of several prestigious awards.

Research Interest

Pharmaceutical development focused on poorly soluble compounds as well as successful pharmaceutical project management and contributes in overall CMC development.