Invited Speakers & Panel Experts : Profiles
Dr. Alok Ray
Head, Center for Biomedical Eng., IIT & All India
Institute Of Medical Sciences, New Delhi
Dr. Alok R. Ray is Professor at Centre for Biomedical
Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. He is
concurrently Professor at All Indian Institute of
Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India. Dr. Ray is also
Director of Stanford-Indian Biodesign program.
He has received his Ph.D. from University of Delhi on
Biopolymers. He was a Fogarty Fellow of National Institute
of Health, USA at Centre for Polymeric implants,
University of Utah, USA during 1982 to 1984. He was a
fellow at University of Liverpool, UK. He was a visiting
professor at All Union Cardiology Institute, Moscow,
University of Leiden, Netherlands and Max Planck Institute
for Polymer sciences, Mainz.
Prof. Ray has made notable contributions in the area of
biocompatible materials. Unique feature of his research is
that starting from synthesis/modification,
characterization, he has gone up to the stage of
engineering and designing of such materials for use in
human medicine and surgery viz.: medical devices and
implants, drug delivery systems, catheters used for blood
vessels.
Prof. Ray has acquired the reputation of being a leader in
the area of compatibility of materials with living
tissues. His work in this area has been highly cited and
the work reported has been further extended by other
authors worldwide. He has developed nine biomedical
products and published over 150 articles in professional
journals and is a consultant to several industries.
Prof. Ray has been awarded TATA INNOVATION FELLOWSHIP for
the year 2007-2008 in recognition of his research
contribution in the area of material used in Human
Medicine and Surgery.
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Prof. Himanshu A Patel
Head, Biomedical Dept.
U. V. Patel College of Engineering, Mehsana
He has done B.Tech (IC), M.Tech (BME), IIT-BHU, Varanasi,
and he is pursuing his Ph.D studies.
He is Head, BME Dept., U.V.Patel College of Engineering,
Ganpat University, Kherva, Mehsana.
His Area of Interests are:
• Medical Image Processing.
• Bio-mechanics.
• Medical Instrumentation
• Control system engineering.
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Dr. Arvind Kukrety
Deputy Drugs Controller, Central Drugs Standard
Control Organization, Zonal Office, Ahmedabad
Arvind Kukrety is working as Deputy Drugs Controller India
in Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation, Ahmedabad
Zone since 2015. He has done M.Pharm from Jamia Hamdard
University, Delhi.
He has got 24 years of working experience in the field of
manufacturing of drugs, Quality Assurance and drug
regulation. He started his carrier from M/s Winthrop (now
known as Win-Medicare) as production supervisor and left
the organization as Assistant Manager technical before
joining CDSCO in 1998. During his stint in Industry, he
worked in various capacities in the manufacturing of oral,
external and parenteral dosage forms.
In 2003, during WHO GMP workshop he was assessed as the
best among the participants and was selected thereafter
for various WHO assignments. As short term consultant for
WHO he was part of NRA assessment teams for Indonesia &
Thailand. As facilitator, he participated in WHO GMP
workshops for inspectors of Indonesia and China. In 2005,
Ministry identified him as GMP expert for assessment of
vaccine manufacturing PSU. He was trained as trainer in
GMP and GCP and was associated in various workshops for
training of inspectors in India. He also represented in
Govt. of India missions in South Korea and Suriname.
In CDSCO HQ he worked in new drugs, Biological, import and
export, Global clinical trial divisions. He was exposed to
dossier assessment procedures of biological in 2008 in
Canada. He has played a major role in preparation of
Guidance documents for Biological and similar biologic
guidelines. In 2011, he led the first team from CDSCO for
inspection of foreign manufacturing sites in China. He is
actively involved in framing of risk based inspection
policy and their evaluation.
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K. R. Navaneethakrishnan,
M.Sc (PhD)
Assistant Director
GLR Laboratories Pvt. Ltd., Chennai
Toxicologist with more than 19 years’ experience in
toxicology and biocompatibility studies. Has worked in GLP
certified Contract Research Organizations-Assistant
Director, GLR Laboratories Pvt. Ltd; Toxicology Study
Director, IIBAT and Quality Assurance Executive-SGS LSS.
Good experience in toxicology/ biocompatibility testing of
medical devices, agrochemicals and pharmaceuticals
especially in vivo toxicology tests. Successful background
in setting up of Quality Systems in Test Facility
according to the OECD Principles of GLP and ISO 17025. Has
faced several GLP and ISO 17025 audits. Additionally, has
faced several national and international client audits.
Done Master’s in Regulatory Affairs and pursuing PhD in
Nanotoxicology. He has attended many international and
national conferences. Has organized national and
international workshops/ training programs related to
medical devices. Adding to credits, also published
scientific papers in peer reviewed international journals
related to nanoparticles. |