NA Applications Lab Manager
BASF Corp
Dr. Nitin Kumar Swarnakar has over 15 years of oral and parenteral drug product development experience and currently serves as a scientist at BASF Corporation, USA. Dr. Swarnakar received his Ph.D. in Pharmaceutical science from National institute of pharmaceutical Research and education at Mohali, India, and holds B. Pharm. and M. Pharm. degrees in Pharmaceutical Sciences from Dr. H.S. Gour University, Sagar, India. Prior to joining BASF, he most recently served as a Senior Scientist at TesoRx Pharma, USA where he was responsible for the development of oral and parenteral formulations. He has also held Post-Doctoral positions at UCONN (Connecticut), U Cincinnati (Ohio), and Western University of Health Science (California) where he was responsible for the development of sustained release, controlled release (CR) and enabled drug products. He has co-inventor of 10 Patents, authored more than 30 publications and has presented his research at national and international conferences. His research interests include enhance safety and efficacy of difficult-to-deliver drugs, formulation development for bioavailability enhancement, melt extrusion process development for pharmaceutical manufacturing and continuous manufacturing of lipid-based drug products.