Seminar Program Evonik Health Care

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Overview

This one-day event will be an excellent opportunity for lab managers and senior scientists from formulation development, process optimization, scale-up and production teams to learn about the versatile products and services of Evonik Health Care for the pharmaceutical industry.

International experts and eminent personalities from the pharmaceutical industry will be the part of the panel, discussing “Future trends in Pharma industry in India” with an emphasis on industrial/formulation case studies, novel technologies and troubleshooting. Furthermore, the forum will provide room for expert discussions and know-how exchange. Attendees will be able to directly apply their learnings from this seminar to their daily work.

Agenda

The event starts at 3:00 pm on Tuesday, September 27, 2022 and finishes at 7:30 pm on the same day. All participants are cordially invited to join our networking dinner after the event.

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Experts

Dr. Nitesh Shah
Business Director, Asia South
Evonik Health Care
Vita

Dr. Nitesh Shah joined Evonik in 2012 as Manager-Technical Services for North India & Gujarat. In subsequent years he handled position of increasing responsibilities in Technical Services. He was later entrusted with responsibility of Business Development & Key Account Sales.

Currently he serves as Business Director of Asia South, where he is responsible for overall business of Asia South for all functions of Sales, Technical, Marketing, Business Development, Customer Service & Logistics.

Nitesh started his career as a Lecturer in Pharmacy college in Ahmedabad in 2007 and later worked in Formulation development of generics and NDA’s with companies like Zydus Cadila; and Johnson & Johnson.

Nitesh received his Masters and Ph.D. degree in Pharmaceutical Sciences from Nirma University, Ahmedabad, India. He has 13 publications in international peer reviewed journals.

Sonali Sheth
Associate Director, Pharma Business
Azelis
Vita

Ms. Sonali Sheth is Associate Director of Azelis India Pharma Division.

She started her career with S.Zhaveri Pharmakem in 1993, having 29 years of expertise in Pharma. The Distribution business of S.Zhaveri was acquired by Azelis India in March/2020, and she continued to Head Pharma operations.

Sonali is responsible for the overall business with all the principals and growing the Pharma Division of Azelis.

She has received her degree in Commerce from Mumbai University, followed by Technical trainings at various foreign principals. This has helped her for Techno-Marketing at Pharmaceutical companies.

Hitesh Patel
Senior Manager Sales & Business Development
Evonik Health Care
Vita

Mr. Hitesh Patel is serving as Senior Business Manager for customers of West India region and is responsible for Distributor Management in India.

Hitesh holds degree of M. Pharmacy in Pharmaceutics and has total 11 years of experience in Formulation Development & Pharma Ingredients B2B Sales.

Before joining Evonik, Hitesh has worked in companies like DKSH, Cipla & Piramal.

Dr. Vineetkumar Patel
Head of Formulation & Application Services Asia South
Evonik Health Care
Vita

Dr. Vineetkumar Patel is heading the Formulation & Application Services team for the Asia South region. He joined Evonik in November 2016 as Formulation & Application Services Manager for the Gujarat & North India region. In Evonik, he has worked with customers on EUDRAGIT^® based modified release product development, scale up & process optimization, troubleshooting exercises and technical promotion.

Vineet holds a masters degree in pharmacy from Birla Institute of Technology, Ranchi and a doctoral degree in pharmaceutical sciences from Nirma University, Ahmedabad. Before joining Evonik, Vineet has worked in Indian pharmaceutical companies like Torrent Pharmaceuticals, Emcure Pharmaceuticals & Glenmark Pharmaceuticals and has developed skills in solid oral formulation development and metered dose inhalation devices.

Hisao Matsuka
Vice President – Asia Pacific, Sales & Services
Evonik Health Care
Vita

Hisao Matsuka joined Evonik Health Care as Vice President Asia North & Oceania in April 2021. He is presently responsible for sales & services activities in the region Asia Pacific for the business line Health Care at Evonik's Nutrition & Care Division.

He started his career in 1997 as an R&D Engineer, Electronics Lab/Software Development at Toyota Motor Corporation. Later he took up the responsibility as Program Manager, Global CT Business / Integration Manager, Asia Pacific at GE Healthcare (formerly GE Medical Systems).

Matsuka also served Manager & Director positions at Abbott Diabetes Care, Abbott Laboratories and as Director, New Product Introduction Japan / Project Director, Asia Pacific Manufacturing at Baxter International. Before joining Evonik, he was associated with Fresenius Kabi as their General Manager Japan.

Matsuka holds the degree of Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from California State Polytechnic University, California, USA and Master of Engineering (Electrical Engineering) from Cornell University, New York, USA.

Ruchir Shah
Manager - Business Development and Marketing
Evonik Healthcare
Vita

Ruchir Shah is an pharmaceutical drug delivery and excipient enthusiast with expertise in developing Novel, Generic, NCE, Complex Oral Solid Dosage Forms using Quality by
Design & Quality Risk Management principles.

Before joining Evonik in the End of 2022, he has worked as formulation development scientist on multiple OSD projects having BCS Class II and IV drugs. He is also well verse with many processing technologies, process development and have done many successful commercial launches.

Ruchir holds Master Degree in Industrial Pharmacy from Annamalai University in India and has also done additional specialization in Design of Experiments and Statistical
Process Control.

Mayuresh Sainkar
Senior Associate Manager, Formulation & Application Services
Evonik Health Care
Vita

Mr. Mayuresh Sainkar is serving as Senior Associate Manager for customers of West & Central India region. Mayuresh holds degree of M. Pharmacy & MBA and has total 11 years of experience in pharma industry. Before joining Evonik, Mayuresh had worked in companies like Merck and Shin-Etsu chemicals.

Dr. Rajan Verma
Director Product Development, Innovation & Development Established Pharmaceuticals
Abbott Healthcare Pvt. Ltd.)
Vita

Rajan Verma is working as Director, Abbott Healthcare India and leads Pharmaceutical development of differentiated products (Oral and Topical dosage forms).

He is having more than 22 years of product development experience in scientific and leadership roles in the area of NDA, 505(B)2, and ANDA development.

He has also worked with companies such as Perrigo, Ferring Pharmaceuticals, Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories, and Ranbaxy Laboratories.

His professional achievements include market launches and filings of extended release dosage forms, including FTFs, in regulated markets.

He is having 25+ patent applications filed in the area of drug delivery and 15+ publications in peer reviewed journals.

Rajan did his Master’s in Pharmacy from Banaras Hindu University (BHU) and Ph.D., from NIPER, Mohali.

Pavak Mehta
Executive Vice President, PDR; Macleods Pharmaceuticals Ltd
Vita

- Mentored filing and approval of more than 300 ANDAs (more than 40 FtFs) and close to 250 EU dossiers, many other markets submissions
- Supported filing and approval of more than 15 complex ANDA filings including drug device combinations across dosage forms
- Filed 8 International and 45 national parents
- Successfully faced many PAIs and Post Approval Inspection
- Trained more than 60 M. Pharm students
- Part of Gujarat University B. Pharm syllabus finalization Committee.

Received Chairman's excellence award at Glenmark for best new employee.

Details

Participation fee:: Free of charge
City/State:: Mumbai
Country:: India
Seminar language:: English

Venue

Kohinoor Continental
Andheri - Kurla Rd
J B Nagar
Andheri East
Mumbai 400059

Questions?

Mayuresh Sainkar
Senior Associate Manager, Formulation & Application Services
Evonik Health Care

+91 22 6624 6911 E-Mail