Ravi Shanker

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. Dr. Shanker received a B. Pharm and M. Pharm. from Banaras Hindu University, India and an MS and PhD in Pharmaceutical Chemistry from the University of Kansas. He has mentored PhD dissertation research for students in the United States and United Kingdom, and taught graduate courses as an adjunct faculty member. Dr. Shanker has collaborated with academic researchers and entrepreneurial companies for enhanced fundamental understanding of drug delivery and reduction to practice of drug delivery technologies, respectively.

Research Interest

Pharmaceutical Sciences, Neurosciences.