Krishna Venkatesh's Biography

Krishna Venkatesh, Vice President, Dr Reddy's Laboratories Ltd

Krishna has over 17 years of experience in pharmaceutical product and process development. Krishna holds a Bachelor’s degree from BITS Pilani and a Masters degree from University of Mississippi. He has worked in the areas of Preformulation using advanced solid state characterization instrumentation, product development, technology transfer, scale up/ optimization and commercialization. Krishna has participated in several Industry-FDA collaborative programs in association with GPhA (USA) and has been an invited trainer in FDA inspectorate training programs for the OGD review division. He has been an invited speaker in several conferences in the USA and in India on the topics of Product Development, Quality by Design, PAT deployment and commercialization. Krishna’s interests are in the areas of structured product development using QbD concepts, process design and process control using fit-for-use PAT capabilities for DRL in exploring continuous and continuous to batch manufacturing and other control systems. Krishna worked for Barr Labs, followed by Teva Pharmaceuticals in the USA before joining Dr. Reddy’s labs in 2010. Krishna is currently Vice-President and leads the Global Oral Solid Dosage development for Dr. Reddy’s with end to end responsibility from portfolio selection to commercialization.