2010Akhilesh Bhambhani, PhD is a Senior Research Chemist at the Merck & Co., Inc., (West Point, PA). He earned his B.S. in Chemical Engineering in 2001 from Ujjain Engineering College, India and his PhD in Biological Chemistry in 2006 from University of Connecticut (Storrs, CT). Prior to joining Merck in
2009, Akhilesh worked as a postdoctoral researcher at The University of Kansas (Lawrence, KS) and later as a Development Scientist I at Amylin Pharmaceuticals (San Diego, CA) developing various liquid and lyophilized products for biologics including high concentration antibody formulation and formulations of peptides, proteins, bacteria and vaccines. In his current role, he is primarily focused on development of a platform lyophilized formulation for therapeutic drug candidates at high concentration, lyophilization cycle and process development. His expertise in this area was recently recognized by Merck with an “award for excellence”. He can be contacted by telephone: (215) 652-7466 or by email:
[email protected].