Pradeep Karatgi's Biography

Pradeep Karatgi, Co Founder/Director, IDRS Labs Pvt Ltd

Dr. Pradeep Karatgi is the Co-founder and Director at IDRS Labs Pvt. Ltd., Bangalore, India. IDRS is a specialty formulation and analytical research organization with contract research as its primary business focus(www.idrslabs.com). As part of IDRS, Pradeep is involved with multiple pharmaceutical organizations globally in QbD based development programs in the area of formulations and APIs. Prior to founding IDRS, Pradeep was working at Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories Limited, Hyderabad, India as Associate Director, CPS formulations (CPS formulations is a wing of Dr. Reddy’s that caters to external customers) and was responsible for leading multiple teams of scientists for enabling product development. Pradeep has about 12 years of experience in formulation research and development, process characterization, scale-up and clinical supplies manufacturing. His experience ranges from developing formulations for NCEs, NDAs and ANDAs. His key achievement has been successful development of two major NDA products. Pradeep has also led the product development and filing of multiple ANDAs with USFDA using QbD / DoE principles. He has been recognized with various awards on multiple occasions for excellent contribution at Dr. Reddy’s. Pradeep has several patent applications, peer reviewed publications and presentations. He has also authored a book chapter. Dr.Pradeep has been an invited speaker at various venues. One of his international publications - in the journal AAPS Pharmaceutical Science and Technology is credited as being one of the top five highly downloaded articles and is appreciated by the publishers as well. Previously, Pradeep was also employed at Ranbaxy Research Laboratories, Gurgaon, India and Torrent Research Center, Gandhinagar, India.