Pallavi Nithyanandan, PhD Food and Drug Administration

Dr. Pallavi Nithyanandan is the lead for the Compendial Operations and Standards Branch, Office of Policy for Pharmaceutical Quality, Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER). She has been with US FDA since 2010. She received her PhD in Pharmaceutical Sciences from the University of Maryland Baltimore in 2005, and, Bachelors in Pharmaceutical Sciences from Mumbai University in 2000. Her dissertation research was in the area of Pharmaceutics and Inhalation Drug Delivery. Prior to joining FDA, she worked as a research scientist at the United States Pharmacopeial Convention from 2005-2010. In her current role, she leads the group that manages CDER's interactions with compendial and voluntary consensus standard development organizations. She serves as one of CDER's experts on Compendial issues, and is the CDER Delegate to the United States Pharmacopeial Convention. She is also involved in policy development activities relevant to pharmaceutical quality.