R. Shankar

Biography

    Ravi Shanker, PhD, is a Senior Research Fellow in Pharmaceutical Sciences, with 25 years of experience at Pfizer Worldwide Research & Development. He has been involved in the development of several successful drug delivery technologies utilizing and applying fundamental principles of physical chemistry, physics, biology and biopharmaceutics. Dr. Shanker had developed platform techniques, such as solid form selection, as well as platform drug delivery technologies, such as spray dried solid dispersions, that have been widely used to advance numerous, structurally-diverse molecules with intractable physicochemical properties and utilized by the pharmaceutical industry at large. He has published numerous papers and has many issued patents in the field of drug delivery.     Ravi Shanker, PhD, is a Senior Research Fellow in Pharmaceutical Sciences, with 25 years of experience at Pfizer Worldwide Research & Development. He has been involved in the development of several successful drug delivery technologies utilizing and applying fundamental principles of physical chemistry, physics, biology and biopharmaceutics. Dr. Shanker had developed platform techniques, such as solid form selection, as well as platform drug delivery technologies, such as spray dried solid dispersions, that have been widely used to advance numerous, structurally-diverse molecules with intractable physicochemical properties and utilized by the pharmaceutical industry at large. He has published numerous papers and has many issued patents in the field of drug delivery.

Research Interest

Senior Research Fellow, Pharmaceutical Sciences