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Surendra Patel has more than 30 years of development and operational experience in various management positions at pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies including Syntex Roche Bioscience Oread Inc. DrugAbuse Sciences and most recently at Nektar Therapeutics where he served as Senior Director Manufacturing Operations since 2002. While at Nektar he managed clinical and commercial manufacturing operations plant maintenance and calibration and warehouse operations that included the direction of more than 100 in-house personnel and played a strategic role in the selection of domestic and international contract manufacturing sites.
Experience at other companies includes the development of commercial and clinical manufacturing processes and sites; management of clinical trial material supply chains for development programs; selection and technical support for contract drug development and manufacturing; management of quality assurance compliance and quality assurance operations; manufacturing and packaging technology transfer between manufacturing plants; validation; and formulation and process development. Mr. Patel has a Bachelor of Science degree in pharmaceutical formulation from De Montford University Leicester United Kingdom. | 