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Faculty in Regulatory Affairs





Dr. Saurabh Srivastava

Associate Professor & Head - Department of Regulatory Affairs
E-Mail: saurabh@niperhyd.ac.in

Dr. Saurabh Srivastava has pursued his Masters in Pharmaceutical Sciences from “Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS), Pilani, Rajasthan and earned his Ph.D. in Pharmaceutics from “Panjab University, Chandigarh”. He carries more than 17 years of profound industrial and research experience working with several Pharmaceutical R&Ds, including IPCA labs, Mumbai, Wockhardt research centre, Aurangabad and His latest stint was with Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories, Hyderabad, as Tech Lead for development and commercialization of various NDA and ANDA based products for different regulated markets. Subsequently, he joined as an Associate Professor in the Department of Pharmaceutics, NIPER-Hyderabad. Presently he is heading the Department of Pharmaceutics and acting as a Member (Board of Governors; NIPER-Hyderabad), Member (Board of Directors; AVISHKARAN-BIRAC-BioNEST of NIPER Hyderabad), Associate Dean, (Academics) and Chairperson, Board of Studies & Research at NIPER Hyderabad. His areas of research interest include development and optimization of Industrially viable, feasible and scalable “Differentiated formulations; (505(b)2”, through utilization of “Micro/Nanostructured” Targeted drug deliveries along with Novel platform technologies, including “Amorphous solid dispersion”, “Fluidized bed processing”, “Particle coating” (Wurster process), “Pellet based controlled drug deliveries” “Compression coating”, Multiple Unit Particulate Systems (MUPS), “Osmotic drug deliveries” and “Lipid based drug carriers” for the purpose of “Bioavailability enhancement”, “Food effect minimization”, “Repurposing/New Indication”, “Synergism for FDCs”, “Dose/Dosing frequency reduction”. His major therapeutic area of research is “Neurodegenerative disorders”, “Dermal diseases”, “Colon targeting/GI disorders” and “Prostate/Breast Cancer”. He has mentored 20+ Masters Research scholars and 11 PhD Research scholars are carrying out their Doctoral research under his supervision. He along with his research team is actively involved in execution of several Industrial and Govt. aided research projects for the establishment of novel differentiated products. He has been awarded several appreciation and special recognition awards from Dr. Reddy’s laboratories for his outstanding contribution to research and development along with the International Travel grant from CSIR, New Delhi. He has 02 “Commercial Products”, 15+ “International and National Patents”, 02 Edited book, 25+ Book chapters along with 75+ research publications in Journals of International repute with 1500+ citations further to his credit.

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Dr. Sandeep Kumar

Assistant Professor (Adhoc)
E-Mail: sandeepkumar.ra@niperhyd.ac.in; katariatniper@gmail.com

Dr. Sandeep Kumar got experience of 6 year in academia and 4 year in industry. His area of regulatory affairs research interest is the approach to the identification of critical factors in unexplored domain of regulatory decision from contemporary guidelines with indigenous and/or global scenario. Along with above mentioned, “Nanoparticles synthesis and its exploitation in targeted delivery of drugs”, “Possible metabolite determination by forced degradation and biotransformation” and “enzyme production, purification and immobilization for different applications” are other additions in the research interest. (updated in June 2023).



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