Bhaskar Reddy Guntoori, Ph.D.
Senior Vice President, Process Chemistry
Dr. Bhaskar R. Guntoori joined Pharmaron as a Vice President of Process Chemistry in July 2011, and promoted to Senior Vice Presidnet in January 2016.
Prior to this appointment, Dr. Guntoori was a Senior Manager, R&D at ApotexPharmachem, Brantford, Canada.
He started at ApotexPharmachem in 1995 as a Chemist, held several positions within the Process R&D group before being promoted to Senior Manager R&D in 2004.
He was one of the principal contributors to the growth of the R&D team from less than ten members in 1995 to a group of eighty scientists. He oversaw the successful completion of more than forty API projects, from lab scale process development to scale-up and commercialization and contributed significantly to the growth of intellectual property of the company.
Dr. Guntoori received his Ph.D. in organic chemistry in 1988 from the University of Poona, India. Subsequently, he joined Sagami Chemical Research Centre, Japan to pursue industrial position under the advisory of Prof. T. Hiyama (1988-1990).
He then joined Prof. Steve Hanessian’s group at the University of Montreal (1990-1994).
Dr. Guntoori’s expertise covers broad area of synthetic chemistry, such as medicinal chemistry, total synthesis, methodologies and Process R&D. His research work is published in 14 peer-reviewed scientific journals and he is a co-inventor/co-author of more than 88 internationally issued patents/patent applications.
About Pharmaron
Pharmaron is a private, premier R&D service provider for the life science industry. Founded in 2003, Pharmaron has invested in its people and facilities, and established a broad spectrum of drug R&D service capabilities, ranging from synthetic and medicinal chemistry, biology, DMPK, pharmacology, safety assessment, radiochemistry and radiolabelled metabolism to chemical & pharmaceutical development. With about 4,000 employees and operations in China, the U.S. and the U.K., Pharmaron has an excellent track record in the delivery of R&D solutions to its partners in North America, Europe, Japan and China. For more information, please visit: www.pharmaron.com
Pharmaron is a private, premier R&D service provider for the life science industry. Founded in 2003, Pharmaron has invested in its people and facilities, and established a broad spectrum of drug R&D service capabilities, ranging from synthetic and medicinal chemistry, biology, DMPK, pharmacology, safety assessment, radiochemistry and radiolabelled metabolism to chemical & pharmaceutical development. With about 4,000 employees and operations in China, the U.S. and the U.K., Pharmaron has an excellent track record in the delivery of R&D solutions to its partners in North America, Europe, Japan and China. For more information, please visit: www.pharmaron.com
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