Director Technical

With expertise in analytical chemistry and having obtained Ph.D from the University of Mumbai, there was no looking back for the man with high spirits, Dr. Vijay K Shastri. Shedding light on his achievements, dating back in time, he has developed a thesis on analytical procedures for evaluation of drugs from pharmaceutical preparations and extended the same for conducting bio-equivalence as well in 1983.

There are many accolades to credit the stalwart, who pursued his Masters in Analytical Chemistry and prior to which, was honoured Bachelors with Chemistry as the principle subject and physics as the subsidiary one.

Remarking each milestone in his winning career path, Dr. Vijay Shastri started off as an application chemist with Nettle Chromatographs in 1981. At Nettle, Shastri found exposure into development of chromatographic procedures (GC as well as HPLC) for supporting the sale of chromatographic equipment. These applications were of most use in the pharmaceutical industry, for both APIs and formulations. Post completing two years at Nettle, Shastri decided to make a career switch and hence found an attractive opportunity to hone his chemistry expertise as a chemist with Abbott Laboratories. At Abbott, Dr. Shastri was responsible for developing procedures that monitor synthesis of Nembutal Ester, Sodium Pentothal and Erythromycin Derivatives. These procedures helped in improving the yield as well as impurity profile.

With expertise in analytical chemistry and having obtained Ph.D from the University of Mumbai, there was no looking back for the man with high spirits, Dr. Vijay K Shastri. Shedding light on his achievements, dating back in time, he has developed a thesis on analytical procedures for evaluation of drugs from pharmaceutical preparations and extended the same for conducting bio-equivalence as well in 1983.

There are many accolades to credit the stalwart, who pursued his Masters in Analytical Chemistry and prior to which, was honoured Bachelors with Chemistry as the principle subject and physics as the subsidiary one.

Remarking each milestone in his winning career path, Dr. Vijay Shastri started off as an application chemist with Nettle Chromatographs in 1981. At Nettle, Shastri found exposure into development of chromatographic procedures (GC as well as HPLC) for supporting the sale of chromatographic equipment. These applications were of most use in the pharmaceutical industry, for both APIs and formulations. Post completing two years at Nettle, Shastri decided to make a career switch and hence found an attractive opportunity to hone his chemistry expertise as a chemist with Abbott Laboratories. At Abbott, Dr. Shastri was responsible for developing procedures that monitor synthesis of Nembutal Ester, Sodium Pentothal and Erythromycin Derivatives. These procedures helped in improving the yield as well as impurity profile.

Going forward, Dr. Shastri took advantage of many more opportunities that crossed paths in his career span to work with Lupin/Armour Chemicals as a Quality Assurance and Analytical Development Manager and then moving on to Merck in the capacity of a Deputy General Manager-Analytical Research. Making significant contributions in the field of analytical chemistry and growing from strength to strength in his career graph,

Dr. Shastri has served customers across the globe. Some noteworthy brands to his credit are US-Morton Grove Pharmaceuticals (wherein he served as a Resident Director) and Symbiotic, D & O Chemicals, Spectmore Import and Export associates, India-MOREPEN labs, Sterling Biotech, CIPLA, Matrix Laboratories, Cymbio Pharma, and many more. This speaks of his relentless endeavour with committed passion for excellence to serve customers with the best in analytical chemistry and biosciences.

Dr. Shastri could accomplish serving many Pharma companies and chemical laboratories, only for his one unique decision to serve as a consultant for reputed firms and use his expertise for the benefit of the companies and masses at large. You can know more about his recent accomplishment from the modest man himself, and this I believe isn’t the right place to enlist all the accolades in his career span. Currently, Dr. Shastri chairs as the Director-Technical for Murli Krishna Pharma Private Limited since its inception in 2004. He has been responsible for designing and commissioning of the MKPPL project, right from scratch. At MKPPL, Dr. Shastri is responsible for the development of semi-finished formulations based on Proton pump inhibitors, anti-fungal drugs, immune suppressants, Macrolide, anti-obesity products, conducting bio equivalence studies and Liasoning with API manufacturers to develop APIs with the right polymorphic character as well as impurity profile.

Honing expertise into the area of analytical chemistry, Dr. Shastri has been conducting seminars and workshops in the field of chromatography and spectroscopy with noted academic institutions and industries across the length and breadth of the country.