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Melbourne, Vic, Au

Australia

• Working with dedicated project teams focused on road mapping and overall commercialization strategy • Managing multiple projects using stage gate process.• Involved in translating the roadmap into operational plans including required resources, budgeting and anticipated timelines • Involved in assessing commercial feasibility of novel delivery technologies • Actively involved in utilising internal and external academic/industrial teams in evaluating and applying novel delivery systems to agro-formulations • Actively involved in mentoring formulation chemists, presenting technology advancements and future possibilities to cross-functional teams• Designed experiments and executed formulation screening/selection achieving optimal formulations and effective scale-up for transferring technology to Manufacturing.

Job Responsibilities:• Literature search & Patent evaluation• Setting dissolution specifications based on drug BCS, Pharmacokinetic & Pharmacodynamics• Pre-formulation studies and selection of excipients & process• Formulation development with respect to novelty & patent non-infringing• Carrying out stability studies, monitoring stability batches and compilation of stability data & documentation.• Technology transfer to Production / Validation and preparing Development reports.Achievements:• Successfully developed a Bioequivalent formulation of BCS-Class IV molecule of narrow therapeutic window and successfully scaled up to the commercial scale for US market.• Development of stable and bio equivalent formulation for highly water soluble drug and the successful commercialization of Multi-unit particulate technology for a water insoluble molecule.• Designed and developed stable oral solid dosage formulation of highly unstable molecule and successful scale up of the same.

Master Of Business, Commercialisation Of Science And Technology

As a part of the course work, a project with CSIRO on commercialisation of composite materials in non-aerospace was successfully.

M.Pharm, Pharmaceutics- Formulation Science