Kumar Khamar, PhD Sanofi Waterford

Kumar Khamar is Team Leader, Manufacturing Sciences for Sanofi Waterford in Ireland. He joined Sanofi in 2016 as development scientist working mainly in freeze drying area for process development, scale up, technical transfer activities.

In his current role as team lead, he is coordinating development activities in the lyo MSAT lab for 30+ products including PFS and network support products.

Kumar has 12 years research experience in physical science related research areas. Prior to Sanofi, Kumar acquired black belt in lean and six-sigma and worked as scientist in operations at Sun Pharma Ireland.
He holds a bachelor in pharmacy from India, MSc in Pharmaceutical Aanalysis from Glasgow, UK and PhD in Pharmaceutical Crystallization, solid state from Liverpool, UK.