Dr.
Sainath Pawaskar - Managing Director - Sandhyasthi
Biomedicals LLP, Goa
He is a
Mechanical Engineer by profession and an alumni of the
University of Leeds in UK from where he earned his PhD
in Biomedical Engineering. He started his career as a
product engineer in a camera manufacturing firm. After
working for five years there, he joined academics as a
lecturer in Mechanical Engineering. In 2002, he left
for the US for higher studies in Computer Science
after which he worked for prestigious firms such as
20th Century Fox and Juniper Networks. He moved to
England for a second masters and eventually PhD.
He
specializes in computational modelling of contact
mechanics and biotribology of joints. His research has
been published in many reputed international journals
and conferences. He is a member of Orthopaedic
Research Society, USA. He left high paying job in the
UK to serve the people of this nation and thus
Sandhyasthi biomedicals, a research and consulting
firm was born. They aim to bring together doctors,
academicians and medical device industry to work
towards delivering affordable health care solutions.
Having worked with multidisciplinary teams on cutting
edge research and products for one of the finest
universities in the UK and for Tissue Regenix, a
company delivering regenerative solutions, he is in a
unique position to bring next generation innovations
to India through cross-disciplinary international
partnerships.
Mr.
Nikhil Patel - Director - Credence Management
Corporation, Vadodara
Mr.
Nikhil is Plastics Engineer and Mechanical Engineer
with strong Product Development and Project Management
experience, for plastics injection moulded medical
devices and healthcare products.
He has
26years of experience in Plastics injection moulding
industry starting form Production Engineer, tooling
engineer, Engineering Manager, QA Manager, Operation
Manager, Corporate Manger - NPD. He has 10 years of
hands-on experience in development of plastic
Injection moulded medical devices and healthcare
products like Insulin delivery Pen, Injectable
devices, Respiratory devices, DPI’s, Programmable
hearing aids, Child resistant blister packs to name a
few.
He is
an expert in Total Project Management for development
of Injection moulded plastics medical devices and
healthcare products, Plastic product design and
validation (DFM, DFMEA, DQ) , Tooling development and
validation, Scientific Injection moulding, Product and
process qualification (IQ,OQ,PQ), Development of
Automations for assembly and testing of medical
devices, Plastic Material selection, Quality Assurance
by applying APQP tools.
Mr.
Nikhil has worked with multinational companies like
Sanofi Avantis, Wockhadt, German Remedies, Sunpharma,
Lupin, Biocon, Emersion Group, Schneider, L&T, ABB, to
name a few.
As a
project manager and plastic expert, he has worked on
precious projects like;
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World’s first Insulin
Injector Pen with all plastic parts
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Complex Insulin Injector
Pen
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Programmable Hearing Aid
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Drug Delivery device
etc.
Being a
technocrat and having hands-on experience in all
segment of Plastics Injection Moulding, he has handled
green field project of setting up Injection moulding
plants also.
Dr.
Ashok Thakkar - Senior Clinical Trial Manager -
Sahajanand Medical Technologies Pvt. Ltd., Surat
Education and Experience
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Education: M. Pharm,
MBA, PhD
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Experience: 9 years in
Interventional Cardiologist Drugs/Devices trials
plus 2 years in Sales and Marketing
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Working experience with
CDSCO, New Delhi as a Medical Device Consultant
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Experience in Projects
Handled: More than 50
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Publications: More than
50
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Mr.
Sarabjot Singh - Managing Director - Sterimed
Surgicals India Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi
Mr.
Singh is an entrepreneur and Founding Member of
Sterimed Group of Industries. He has done Diploma in
Polymer Technology from Indian Plastic Institute (IPI).
He has
over 30 years of experience in the field of
manufacturing of Disposable Medical Products and 17
years of experience in the field of manufacturing of
Industrial and Medical Adhesive Tapes.
Mr.
Sarabjot Singh is also experienced in the field of
manufacturing of Hotmelt Adhesives and manufacturing
of Nonwoven bags.
Dr.
Hemant Desai - Former DGM (Operation) - Nirma Ltd. -
Healthcare Division, Ahmedabad
Dr.
Hemant Desai has done Ph.D. in Analytical Chemical &
MBA in Marketing. His areas of exposure include the
system related to in process controls, and in house
standards to achieve Consistent quality of the end
product, developed documentation such as SOP, QA/QCOperation
documentations and doziers, as per the WHO standards,
develop MIS (Management Information System] for
strategic decision, production Planning and Material
Control [PPMC], organize the productivity to the up
most installed capacity to the various Department Viz
- Tablets, Capsules, Oral - Liquid, [General - B-Lactum],
Injectables [SVP], development & validation of clean
room standards / sterility & pyrogen [LAL System],
project executions from concept to commissioning,
Techno-Commercial evolution / analysis of various
venders [Plant machinery and RM-supplies /
Manufacturers], Technical up-gradations for plant
productivity by proper mapping process, Liaisoning
with FDA / Government and regulatory agencies. He has
done R & D on new molecules of starch derivatives for
various end use industries.
Dr.
Pradeep Patel - Head (Research & Development) -
Polymer Tech. International (Care Group), Vadodara
Dr.
Pradeep Patel has done B.Sc. in Chemistry and M.Sc. in
Organic. He had the Ph. D in Polymer Science.
He has
the professional experience as Research Scientist in
Gujarat Alkali and Chemical Co. Ltd., GACL. He has
served for Indian Petrochemical Corporation Ltd., IPCL
as General Manager, R&D during 1988-2004. Dr. Patel
has also served Reliance Life Science as Research Team
Leader: Industrial Biotech. He has worked for ARIBAS
Institute (Vallabh Vidyanagar) as Director of the
institute.
Dr.
Pradeep’s areas Of Research are Polymerization
reaction and reaction kinetics, Synthesis and
Processing of biodegradable polymers and its scaffold
for tissue engineering, Nano and Micro formulation for
drug delivery, New Polymeric formulations for
intraocular lens, contact lens and its delivery
devices.
He has
presented 30 Research Publications in National and
International journal.
Dr.
Renuka Mishra - Assistant Professor - Institute of
Pharmacy, Nirma University, Ahmedabad
Dr.
Renuka Mishra is Assistant Professor in Department of
Pharmaceutics, Institute of Pharmacy, Nirma
University, Ahmedabad. She has completed her B.Pharm,
M.Pharm from L.M. College of Pharmacy, Ahmedabad. She
has also cleared GATE 2002
with 96.1 percentile. She has completed her PhD from
Nirma University in 2010. She has one year of
Industrial experience and 8.5 years of academic
experience. She is actively involved in formulation
and development of novel drug delivery system for
Pharmaceutical companies. She is also actively
involved in testing of various formulations for
various institutes and research organizations. She has
attended national as well as international
conferences, seminars and short term training
programme. She has 12 research publications to her
credit. She has also successfully completed minor
research project from Nirma University.
Dr.
C. S. Bhaskaran Nair - Terumo Penpol Limited,
Trivandrum
Dr.
C.S.Bhaskaran Nair was born at Alleppey, Kerala State
and educated at the University of Kerala, Trivandrum,
from where he obtained his Ph.D Degree |
for his
work on the catalytic vapor phase oxidation of
aromatic hydro carbons.
He
started his career as Research Assistant at the
Central Research Institute, University of Kerala, till
1952. He then joined The Central Fuel Research
Institute, Dhanbad, Bihar and worked there as
Scientist for 27 years. Subsequently he joined the
Fertilizers and Chemicals Travancore Ltd, Kerala as
Head of Research and Development. On retirement from
FACT in 1984, he joined M/S. Peninsula Polymers Ltd
(now TERUMO PENPOL Ltd.) as Director, Research and
Development . Since 2002, he is working as Consultant
to the Company for Research & Development
Dr.
Nair has developed a number of processes for the
recovery and utilization of chemicals from the coal
industry, fertilizer industry and for pollution
control. Three processes developed by him have been
commercialized. His contributions to the
commercialization of the Technology of Blood bags at
M/S. Peninsula Polymers Ltd. won the DSIR National
Award for R&D to the company for the year 1995.
During
the last 28 years he has been engaged in the
development of improved technology for making nontoxic
PVC compounds for the collection and storage of blood
and blood components and various technological
innovations relating to the sterilization and
packaging of medical devices. For the last seven
years, he has been actively engaged in the newly
emerging field for the development of non DEHP, PVC
containers for the collection and storage of blood and
blood components and apheresis procedures and has made
notable achievements in this field.
Dr.
Nair has published over 90 Research Papers and has 53
patents to his credit. He is a Fellow and Charted
Chemist of the Royal Society of Chemistry, UK and the
Institution of chemists, India.
A
Ramakrishna - Scientist “F” & Head, (Research
Appliances), Defence Food Research Laboratory, DRDO,
Mysore
Dr.
Ramakrishna has been working in DRDO, DFRL since 1984.
He has the contribution such as Development of Radio
protective Pathogen composite films, Bulk Sterilizer
for thermal processing of ready to eat foods with an
intention of indigenous technology for large scale
production of thermo stabilized pouched and canned
foods, Continuous system for blanching of root and
leafy vegetables, with provision to control the
processing parameters, Biosynthesis reactor for
production of Bio-coat to enhance the shelf life,
Innovative breathable film for modified atmosphere
packaging of fresh produces etc.
Recognitions:
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Member - Board of Studies, University of Mysore and
VTU
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BEST
SCIENTIFIC WORKER-1988, DFRL, DRDO, Mysore
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BEST
OUTSTANDING ENGINEER-1990, Institution of Engineers,
Mysore
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International Convention of Food Scientists and
Technologists (I) Awards for BEST research papers
-1993, 1995, 1999, 2004 to 2010 and 2012
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Defence R&D Cash award-1993
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DRDO
PERFORMANCE EXCELLENCE AWARD-2005 (For contribution
during development of retort processing technology)
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Dr.
VASUNDHARA MEMORIAL AWARD for the best research
paper-2006 and 2007
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Dr.
J. S. Pruthi award-2008 on development of the New
Machinery by Food Processors Association, India
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Technology group award (DFRL/DRDO) -2008
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Technology group award (DFRL/DRDO) -2012
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DFRL-DRDO Scientist of the year award 2011
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Patents: 7 nos, Publications: 25 nos
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Presented Poster/Oral: 24, Equipment Design
Technology transferred: 2 nos
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