Organizing Committee Member
Amish Patel
Director
Emergent Bio solutions
USA
Biography
Dr. Patel is the Senior Director of Product Development at Emergent Biosolutions (USA). He is responsible for developing oral and injectabledelivery platforms and process for vaccines. He has developed process, formulation and delivery system for small molecules, DNA vaccines, Virus Like Particle vaccines (VLP), cell therapy, Adenovirus and Bacterial vaccines from development to GMP manufacturing.
Research Area
Dr. Patel CMC experience ranges from pre-clinical to life cycle management with successful track record of commercialization of the biologics. He has been an integral part of the QA, QC and GMP manufacturing teams where he has developed over 15 clinical products and trained theGMP staff on the production technology. Prior to PaxVax, Dr. Patel worked as a Senior Scientist II, doing Formulation Research at NexBio Inc. and as a Sr. Scientist at MicroIslet, Inc where his primary responsibilities involved developing process and formulations for encapsulating cells (islets) for in vivotransplantation. Dr. Patel received his Ph.D. and M.S. in Chemical Engineering with special interest in Nanotechnology field, from Louisiana Tech University, and, B.S. Chemical Engineering from University of Poona (India)