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Washington, DC 20015
Phone 202 274-0214
EXPERIENCE
Director, IP, Ranbaxy Inc., USA reporting to Senior Vice President, Global IP - Managing all patent related activity with focus on Europe, CIS and Africa including coordinating multi-country litigations, providing freedom to operate opinions, advising on patent and patent related regulatory issues, devising at risk product launch strategies in view of potential litigation, and filing oppositions.
Senior Patent Scientist, IP, Ranbaxy Europe Ltd., London reporting to Chief Regional Patent Counsel Region II (Europe, CIS and Africa)- Prosecuting patent applications at the EPO, Preparing and filing oppositions against competitors' patents, overseeing patent clearances for projects, obtaining legal opinions on contentious patent issues, co-ordinating with corporate and R&D functions in India for IP related information flow for current and expected patent litigations and to facilitate timely product launches in the region, identifying opportunities for early launches of products through patent challenges, preparing grounds for patent invalidity and/or non-infringement for potential litigations, engaging and instructing lawyers and patent attorneys for patent litigation.
Group Leader at R & D, Ranbaxy Research Labs, Gurgaon, Haryana reporting to Associate Director (IP)- Patent searching and evaluation for active pharmaceutical ingredients and their synthetic processes for world-wide markets, especially for US, Europe, and Japan. Providing freedom to operate opinions to chemical research department after consulting in-house and external attorneys. Protecting company's IP by identifying patenting opportunities/filing defensive patent applications-examining patentability of new compounds and processes, patent drafting and supporting their prosecution.
Research Associate at R & D, J. K. Drugs & Pharmaceuticals, Delhi reporting to Senior Manager (process development)
Worked on second and third generation cephalosporin antibiotics- literature search, process development & innovation, optimization of process parameters, up-scaling of lab technology to pilot and commercial scale, cost reduction and trouble shooting.
Research Scholar at Department of Chemistry, University of Delhi, Delhi. Ph.D. supervisor- Dr. Jitender M. Khurana
Research area: Synthetic methodology development -search for new reagents and reactions with emphasis on selectivity, high yields, mild reaction conditions, easy work ups and investigation of the reaction mechanisms.
Trainee Chemist at R & D, Max-GB Ltd., Delhi - process development of various bulk drugs reporting to Senior Manager (process development).
EDUCATION
J.D. Candidate School of Law-Rutgers Newark (Expected Graduation 2010)
Ph.D.* Department of Chemistry, University of Delhi (1998), Organic Chemistry
M.Sc. Department of Chemistry, University of Delhi (1992), Chemistry with specialization in Organic
B.Sc. Gargi College, University of Delhi (1990), Chemistry, Physics, Mathematics
* The thesis entitled "Some new redox reactions in organic synthesis and their mechanistic investigations", presents some new synthetic methods with suitable mechanistic interpretations. In developing newer synthetic methods, the emphasis was on selectivity, high yields, mild reaction conditions and easy work up.
LIST OF PUBLICATIONS
1. "Reductive coupling of Nitroarenes to Hydrazoarenes with Al-KOH in methanol", Jitender M. Khurana and Sarika Singh, J. Chem. Soc., Perkin Trans. 1., 1999, 1893.
2. "Deoxygenation of Sulfoxides and Selenoxides with Nickel Boride" Jitender M. Khurana, Abhijit Ray and Sarika Singh, Tetrahedron Lett. 1998, 3829.
3. "Oxidative Coupling of Thiols to Disulfides", Jitender M. Khurana, Arti Sehgal and Sarika Singh, Ind. J. Chem. 1997, 36 B, 819.
4. "Oxidative hydrolysis of Hydrazones, Semicarbazones and Phenylhydrazones with Sodium hypochlorite", Jitender M. Khurana, Sarika Singh and Atulya K. Panda, J. Chem. Res. (S) 1996, 532.
5. "Reduction of Nitroarenes with Sodium dithionite'', J.M. Khurana and Sarika Singh, J. .Ind. Chem.Soc. 1996, 487.
SCHOLARSHIPS
Junior Research Fellowship (CSIR**)
Senior Research Fellowship (CSIR)
** Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, India (www.csir.res.in)
