Ganapathy Mohan , PhD Merck & Co., Inc.

Ganapathy Mohan leads the Global External Advocacy for Global Quality in Merck Manufacturing Division. Prior to this until April 2017, he was the head of Small Molecule Development Quality, which is responsible for ensuring GMP compliance and release of all materials and investigational Medicinal Products for use in clinical trials.

Mohan was the head of Global CMC regulatory Affairs at Merck until April 2015. Mohan has a Ph. D in Analytical Chemistry from Kansas State University.

Mohan was past Chair of the AAPS Regulatory Sciences Section in 2014 and has served in the Council of experts for the United States Pharmacopeia till 2015. He currently serves as the vice chair of the Quality Coordinating Committee of IQ Consortium. He is also the Topic Lead representing PhRMA in the ICH Q13: Continuous Manufacturing of Drug Substances and Drug products Expert Working Group (EWG) and represents Merck in the GQM WG of PhRMA. Mohan leads the PhRMA Nitrosamine Task Force.