Ex-USFDA, Pharmaceutical Consultant, USA
Dr Vinod P Shah is a Pharmaceutical Consultant; Steering Committee member of Non-Biological Complex Drugs (NBCD) hosted at Lygature in The Netherlands (2011-Present); International Chairman of Society of Pharmaceutical Dissolution Science (SPDS) (2012 – Present); President of SPDS-US chapter (2019 – present) and expert consultant with NDA Partners (2016 – Present). He received his Pharmacy degree with Gold Medal distinction from Madras University, India in 1959 and Ph. D. in Pharmaceutical Chemistry from the University of California, San Francisco in 1964.
Dr Shah worked at US FDA (Food and Drug Administration) from 1975-2005. At FDA, he developed several Regulatory Guidances for Industry in the area of dissolution, SUPAC, bioanalytical method validation, topicals, bioequivalence and biopharmaceutics.
Dr Shah was Scientific Secretary (2003 – 2011) of International Pharmaceutical Federation (FIP); Chair of Regulatory Sciences Special Interest Group of FIP (2011-2016) and Biopharmaceutics Consultant at USP (2005-2014). Dr Shah is author/co-author of over 330 scientific papers and is a co-editor of four books.
Dr Shah was the President of American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists (AAPS) in 2003. He is a Fellow of AAPS and FIP. Dr Shah is a recipient of many FDA, National and International Awards.
