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Award Winner (Service Appreciation Award) 2023: Vishal Sharma

Vishal Sharma

Vienni Training and Consulting LLP

I was introduced to PDA when I started working for a filtration and downstream processing company. PDA Technical Report No.26 Sterilizing Filtration for Liquids became a go-to document for me. In 2010 I joined the organization and became a volunteer, but my activity remained limited to downloading technical reports and PDA Journal of Pharmaceutical Science and Technology articles. I realized the full potential of membership when the opportunity presented itself in 2013, and I embraced it with both hands, to become the founding member of the India Chapter. The journey from then on has been very rewarding. I volunteered for several initiatives, including serving in various capacities on the India Chapter Board since 2013, and recently tenured as Chapter President in 2023. I also got an opportunity to volunteer for the task force constituted for the Points to Consider Remote Inspections and Audits document. Apart from that, I currently volunteer as a Member of the RAQAB and the Technical Report No. 3 revision task force. I strongly feel that PDA membership is a must for any professional who is looking to make a career in sterile manufacturing.

About Vishal Sharma

Vishal Sharma has a Masters in Microbiology, and is member of the group that provides technical and practical support to the biopharmaceutical industry in India. He has played a hand in helping many organizations grow and change, especially in the oncology research/development, scale-up, production, monitoring and validation. He has a body of credible work in the aseptic process and terminal sterilization optimization, in India.

Vishal Sharma has played a hand in helping many organizations grow and change, especially in oncology research/development, scale-up, production, monitoring and validation. He is a pioneer in India's aseptic process review and optimization. Vishal has been instrumental in providing valuable support to many biopharmaceutical industries in regulatory compliance, from identifying equipment and process suppliers/vendors to adopting cGXP practices for organizational technical and process capacity building.