Director, Drug Product Design, Pfizer

Arul is a pharmaceutical scientist, who has extensive experience in product development of solids, liquids, suspensions, nasal medical devices and dry powder inhalers using range of technologies. He has held various roles within large Pharmaceutical companies (Pfizer and GSK) and Contract Development Manufacturing Organisations (Patheon – ThermoFisher Scientific and Recipharm). He led formulation, process, analytical development and drug product manufacturing teams ensuring successful clinical manufactures (Phase I to Phase III), technical transfer and scale up for commercial manufacture.

Arul has provided strategic direction for companies in expanding their business offering including control drug development, paediatric drug product development and solubility enhancement.

Arul is passionate about transferring scientific knowledge to the next generation of scientists. As a result, he sits on the advisory board for Greenwich University. He has represented companies as keynote speaker at various conferences and webinars.