Yash Kapoor is a Principal Scientist at Merck & Co., Inc., Kenilworth, NJ, USA. As a member of the Sterile Formulation Sciences, he is involved with parenteral drug product development. Yash’s areas of interest include sterile & oral formulation development, intradermal, transdermal, ocular drug delivery technologies, pharmacokinetics, controlled release from degradable & non-degradable polymeric systems along with impact of self-assembled particulate systems such as microemulsions/liposomes and 3D printing for medical use. Prior to joining Merck, Yash worked in the eye care industry (Alcon, A Novartis Company) developing novel contact lenses with controlled release properties along with tunable surface chemistries. Yash received his PhD degree in Chemical Engineering from University of Florida at Gainesville in Fall-2008.