Instructor Profile:
Mukesh Kumar, leads the Regulatory Affairs and Quality Assurance departments at Amarex Clinical Research, a full service CRO based in Germantown, MD. His key expertise is in developing Global Regulatory Business Strategies for biomedical product development and his passion is to bring traditional therapies for India, China and the Latin-America to the Western markets. In addition to regulatory expertise, Mukesh is an experienced auditor and a trainer in regulatory and business processes.
Mukesh started his professional career as a research scientist at the NIH, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, and several premier institutions in India. With more than 11 years of experience in virology, gene therapy, and molecular biology, Mukesh has expertise in biological and combination products. He has been a global Regulatory Affairs Specialist (US, EU, and India) for the last 5 years. He has filed several new-INDs for drugs, biologics and combinations products, NDAs, 510K, PMAs, etc. He has made several hundred FDA submissions, and arranged a number of meetings and responses to FDA comments. In addition, he has had made regulatory submission in the EU and India. Mukesh has reviewed/compiled more than 100 clinical trial protocols and has supervised more than 60 multi-national clinical trials (both under IND and non-IND trials), in the US, Canada, Latin America, Africa, and Asia. In addition to drugs and Biologics, he has extensive experience in medical device and diagnostic product regulatory filings and safety monitoring.
Specialties:
Technology transfer, global regulatory strategy, global clinical trials, safety reporting, training, and GLP/GCP audits.
Honors and Awards:
US patent awarded "Gene Therapy vectors derived from Sendai virus".
Education:
Education: Delhi University - Ph.D., Biochemistry - 1993 – 1997
National Dairy Research Institute - MS, Biochemistry - 1990 – 1993
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