Dr. Hughey has over 15 years of formulation and process development experience with a focus on oral solid dosage forms.  His experience extends from early stage development to scale-up and commercialization of drug products.  He has extensive experience in the areas of spray drying, hot-melt extrusion and other processing techniques to improve bioavailability.  He holds B.S. degrees in both Chemical Engineering and Chemistry as well as a Ph.D. in Pharmaceutics from the University of Texas at Austin.

Sandeep Kumar is a technical project lead at Thermo Fisher, Milton Park UK Site and works on early stage formulation development and technical transfer of oral solid dosage formulation projects. Sandeep has a wide range of experience on formulation technologies including wet/dry granulation, tableting/encapsulation, solubility enhancement techniques such as spray drying systems, hot melt extrusion and lipid-based formulations. Sandeep has over 5 years’ experience in the pharmaceutical industry gained at Catalent Pharma and Thermo Fisher Scientific.  Sandeep has M.Pharm degree in Pharmaceutics and received his Ph.D. in Pharmacy at Queen’s University Belfast, with specialization on implantable drug delivery systems.

Billy has over 15 years of experience in the pharmaceutical industry, starting with Roche where he managed production for both commercial products and clinical candidates.  Billy joined Patheon in 2017, where he currently leads a group that manages milling and spray drying processes, along with process engineering, equipment qualification, and cleaning validation for the Florence, South Carolina site.  Billy holds a PhD in chemical engineering.

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