Bhavi Mittal

Bhavishya Mittal is the Vice-President of Product Development and Manufacturing at BioDuro-Sundia (Irvine, CA), where he leads the strategy and operations for drug product development of all small molecule client-owned assets within the portfolio. Before BioDuro, Bhavi worked at Kronos Bio, AbbVie, US FDA, Takeda, and Astellas Pharmaceuticals. Bhavi is also an adjunct faculty at the Keck Graduate Institute’s Henry E. Riggs School of Applied Life Sciences (Claremont, CA). He has a Ph.D. in Materials Engineering from the Pennsylvania State University and a BS in Chemical and Bio Engineering from the National Institute of Technology, Jalandhar (India). Bhavi has 21+ years of industrial experience in the formulation design, process development, and project management of numerous drug products of small therapeutic molecules (oncology, inflammation, GI, and CNS indications) aimed for NDA, BLA, and ANDA filings. He is the Chair for the Manufacturing Sciences and Engineering (MSE) community of AAPS. He is the author of 3 published books (with 25 combined chapters), 4 granted US patents, 11 peer-reviewed manuscripts, and numerous conference papers and posters published/presented in various international journals and conferences. He is also very active in organizing conferences and moderating technical sessions on cutting-edge topics related to pharmaceutical manufacturing sciences.