Gautam Samanta, Vice President - Quality by Design and Process Scale-up, Cipla Ltd

Dr. Gautam Samanta is Vice President and Head of Quality by Design and Technology Transfer at Cipla Ltd. His focused areas are the development of a robust product using QbD and PAT and seamless transition of the process from R&D to manufacturing using modeling and simulation. Previously, he worked at Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories in API development. He was awarded a Ph.D. degree from Jadavpur University, Calcutta. Following his Ph.D. degree, he pursued research as a postdoctoral research fellow at the National Institute of Health Sciences, Japan and then the Texas Tech University, USA. After his postdoctoral research, he joined as a Research Assistant Professor at the University of Houston, Texas, USA. He has published more than 50 papers in peer-reviewed international journals including the very prestigious Nature. His work has been cited by more than 5000 researchers. He has also authored 5 book chapters. He is an inventor of three process patents. He is a reviewer of many scientific journals such as Analytical Chemistry, Environmental Science and Technology etc.