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About Pharma Knowledge Forum

Pharma Knowledge Forum is an online platform for sharing skill-based Pharmaceutical Blogs. It was founded in 2023 by Dr Pramod Kr Pandey. The Blogs cover the following categories:

• Analytical Research: This category covers Blogs related to Analytical Method Development, Impurities Control Strategy, Genotoxicity, Chiral Control Strategy, Analytical Control, QBD, HPLC, GC, GC-HS, LC-MS, GC-MS, TLC, UV, FTIR, Troubleshooting, Pharma interviews and Innovation
• GLP and GDP: This category covers Blogs related to Analytical Method Validation, Stability Studies, Instrument Calibration, SOPs, Guidelines, OOS, OOT, Reports, STPs and Monographs.

About Dr Pramod Kumar Pandey

Dr Pramod Kr Pandey is an Analytical Research Leader with 30+ years of experience working in Indian and global pharmaceutical companies. He has a proven track record of facing major regulatory audits e.g. USFDA, KFDA, EMA, Health Canada, PMDA, and ANVISA. He is the founder of Pharma Knowledge Forum and now he is on a mission to train more and more pharma professionals by sharing his deep industrial knowledge through “Pharma Knowledge Forum”

Organization and Business Responsibilities

Professional Expertise

Impurity Control Strategies (chiral, achiral, metal, genotoxins etc.), Chiral Separation, Analytical Method Development, Analytical Method Validation, GLP (SOP, STP, Monograph, OOS, OOT, CAPA and LIR etc.), Stability Studies, Audit Management, Training, Troubleshooting, Handling Regulatory Query, Standard/Impurity Characterisation, and Analytical Techniques (HPLC, GC, GC-MS, LC-MS, Spectroscopic Techniques and Chemical Techniques)

Award and Achievements

• Represented TEVA API India at the Global Analytical Forum held in Israel, 2012
• Won prize in Nation Conference “Managing Genotoxic Impurities” held at Mumbai in 2013
• Analytical leader of three Gabby- Pollack winning projects (Award for Developing Innovation technology)
• Long term service award by TEVA

Patent Publication

Process for purifying Varenicline L-tartrate salt and preparing crystalline forms of Varenicline L-tartrate salt (Pub No.: US2010/0010221A1, Date Jan.14, 2010) Process for purifying Varenicline L-tartrate salt and preparing crystalline forms of Varenicline L-tartrate salt (Pub No.: US2010/0010221A1, Date Jan.14, 2010)

Seminars and Lectures

• Speaker and member of TEVA Global analytical forum ; Delivered many lectures on various topics like chiral separation, chiral control strategies, deficiency letters management etc
• Purification and Control of Genotoxins; Challenges and solutions, MIT Gwalior
• Analytical challenges related to deficiency letters, Niper, Hyderabad
• Several online seminars on Analytical techniques

Vocational training

• The seven habits of highly effective people
• Situational leadership
• Management development
• Presentation advantages
• Standard without border; U.S. Pharmacopeia
• Hazard operability and hazop leader
• Regulatory training
• Several technical-trainings like HPLC, GC, GLP etc.

Qualifications (Academic and Technical)

• PhD chemistry, B.U. Muzaffarpur
• MSc, Inorganic chemistry, B.U. Muzaffarpur
• BSc, Chemistry honours, B.U. Muzaffarpur
• Approval in chemical and instrumental analysis of all types of drugs, Drug controller, department Government of National Territory of Delhi
• PG Diploma in Patent Law , Nalsar University of Law, Hyderabad

Our Mission and Vision