Devanshi Shah, Ph.D. Email & Phone Number

India

Ensure operational supervision of the application development for pharmaceutical market. Provide technical support for the use of Gattefosse products by final customers. Co – ordinate formulation and analytical activities to support the pharmaceutical applications of Gattefossé ingredients. Coordinate the team’s efforts according to the main objectives of the lab: Customer Technical Support, Formulation Development and Training & Education. Communicate with customers on topics ranging from formulation troubleshooting to ideation, to education. Contribute to scientific & technical support matters, generation of articles & marketing tools, and the scientific image of Gattefossé. Newer formulations using Gattefossé excipients and hot-melt extrusion technology and liqui-solid technology.

Thane, Maharashtra, India

Technical and process expert for applications on Gansons, Hanningfield and Gabler product portfolios. Customer application development and trial (in-house and onsite at customer), development of technical papers and collaterals, competitive technology benchmarking, internal R&D, customer process trouble-shooting. Demonstration of newer applications to machines. Conduct in-house trials to generate data and case studies to support the sales and marketing team. Developing technical documents for marketing team such as whitepapers, blogs, and articles. Responsible for conducting technical seminars and webinars. Responsible for industry – academia collaborations for conducting trials and projects. Developing leads for collaborations in the field of Hot-melt extrusion. Develop a clear understanding of the process, process parameters affecting the product quality, the upper and low limits for each parameter in the workable range.

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Development of solid concentrated cleaning composition with high surfactant loading in the form of tablets. Effervescent tablet formulation. Liquid surfactant loaded in solid formulations such as powders, granules and tablets. Disinfectant and anti-microbial efficacy based on microbial growth testing. Physicochemical modification of liquid surfactants to give free flowing powder. Solid state and liquid state interactions of the newly modified surfactants. Instrumental techniques for mechanistic understanding of the complexes formed. Effect of processing techniques on the nature of the complex. Scale up and stability testing of the new product.

India

Major research work focussing scientific design strategies for novel formulations. Powder technology and powder flow evaluation tools. Solubility enhancement techniques for oral and topical formulations. Proposed a novel QbD based optimization tool in collaboration with University of Barcelona, Spain. Development of topical solutions for hair and skin with solubility enhancement techniques and novel approaches to design a stable formulation. Novel application for particle sizing of soap using a new process.

India

Development of topical skin care and hair care formulations based on newer concepts as per market needs. In-depth literature review for the selection of right excipients and actives to give an efficient and stable formulation. Process and product optimization of the formulation and stability evaluation. Efficacy studies in comparison with conventional marketed formulations. Major products include formulations for hair regrowth and highly concentration anti-oxidant serum for healthy skin. Solubility enhancement techniques and novel design strategies for these formulations. Sunscreen formulations with add-on benefits for skin and hair. In-vitro diffusion studies for all topical formulations. Final product launch (event host) to identify potential customers to market the products.

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Formulation of actives to be added to soap bars. Soap bar processing from scratch such as milling of soap noodles, addition of encapsulated actives, preparation of billets and soap bar punching. Encapsulation of actives beneficial to skin in the form of pickering emulsions or solid emulsions. Powder processing and particle sizing for addition to soap bars.

Master Of Pharmacy (M.Pharm), Pharmaceutics

Bachelor Of Pharmacy (B.Pharm.), Pharmaceutical Sciences