Ensuring Excellence: Cutting-Edge Techniques for Pharmaceutical Analysis [LC/LCMS]

Join us for an enlightening webinar series designed to empower academicians and researchers by exploring the latest advancements and opportunities in pharmaceutical sciences. At Agilent, we recognize the unique challenges faced by academicians, researchers, and students. At PharmaFrontiers, we have curated a series of content tailored to address your needs and unlock new opportunities.
The PharmaFrontiers seminar series is designed to provide you with valuable knowledge, insights, and practical skills.
Topics to be covered:
- Introduction to Unlocking Intelligent Features of the Agilent Infinity III LC Series.
- Advance your lab with the performance and intelligence of next-generation LC-MS detection.
- Achieve More and Uncover Biological Insights Faster: End-to-End LC Platforms, LC/TQ, and LC/QTOF Workflows.
Presenter: Dr. Nirmal Thakker (Technical Application Support Specialist – Chromatography, Dissolution & Lab Informatics, Agilent Technologies)
Dr. Nirmal has done his PhD in quality assurance and pharmacy and his master's in pharmacy from the University of Pune. He has more than 15 years of overall industrial experience working in analytical research & development for renowned multinational pharma companies like Glenmark, Torrent, and Piramal. He has also worked with Spinco Biotech as an application specialist for LC. Presently, he is working with Agilent Technologies as a technical application support specialist for chromatography, dissolution, and lab informatics. He has expertise in chromatography, QbD, method transfer, and mass spectrometry.
Presenter: Vinayak AK (Pre-Sales Applications Engineer - LC/MS and Automation, Agilent Technologies)
Vinayak AK began his career at Agilent in 2012 as a campus hire working as an application associate. He then transitioned to the segment marketing team as an application scientist, a role he held for 5 years. For the past 8 years, Vinayak has been serving as a pre-sales applications engineer/product specialist for LC and then for LC/MS. His expertise includes method development for MS-based impurity analysis and purification and cleaning validation workflows, utilizing solutions such as the Agilent 6150 Series Single Quadrupole LC/MS. Vinayak has published a total of 13 application notes across various workflow solutions based on Agilent UHPLC and QbD solutions, including 3 specifically on Agilent Single Quadrupole solutions.
Presenter: Dr. Ashish Pargaonkar (Biopharma Market Development Specialist, Agilent Technologies)
Dr. Ashish Pargaonkar is a Lead for Biopharma Workflow Commercialization team for India and also Manager for Centre of Excellences at Bangalore. A Microbiologist by education with a Ph.D, he holds more than 20 years of experience for Biopharma market applications on Hi Resolution Mass Spectrometry.
He has a long record of successful demonstrations and customer engagements on workflows for CQA’s, Intact mass, peptide mapping, HCP and Glycans using Agilent state-of-the art solutions. He has authored ASMS posters on media components and therapeutic peptides. Dr. Ashish has been invited speaker at several conferences and workshops at Biosimilar Congress, ADC 2018, IIT (Mumbai, Delhi), ICT (Mumbai), PSI events.
