Ramesh Shanmugam

Scientist II at AstraZeneca

Ramesh Shanmugam is a Scientist II in Formulation Sciences at AstraZeneca, Cambridge. Being a Pharmaceutical Boo-technologist, he has over 12+ years of broad cross-functional industrial research experiences in drug product formulation, lyophilization process development, biophysical characterization and drug product manufacturing process development for both early, late stage biologics.

Ramesh Kumar obtained a B.S. in Pharmacy and M.S. in Pharmaceutical Biotechnology at the TN MGR Medical University and Ph.D. in Pharmacy specialized in Lyophilization technology from JJT University; also holds M.B.A. from Bharathiar University, India. His research interests are expanding the use of AI into biologics formulation development to support and simplify CMC goals.

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Title: Impact of trace level of excipient impurity in drug product stability