Dr. Rakesh Bhasin is currently placed as Vice President and Head-R&D (Formulation) at Biocon Pharmaceuticals Ltd, Bangalore. He has done his Masters in Pharmacy from UIPS, Panjab University and PhD in Pharmaceutical Sciences from JNTU, Hyderabad. He obtained his MBA from IGNOU, New Delhi. He is highly energetic, task oriented analytical and creative pharmaceutical executive with around twenty-six years of experience in R&D, Regulatory, Quality, Clinical, Pharmacovigilance, Compliance and Operations. He was associated in leadership role with various reputed Pharmaceutical companies like Cadila Pharmaceuticals, Ipca and Dr. Reddy’s lab

He has in-depth understanding of R&D functioning for generics including creation of system driven organization and improving productivity.

His repertoire of work includes novel drug delivery system, complex generics development, 505(b)(2), NCE and ODT’s. His expertise includes accepting challenges in various fields of drug delivery system.  He has an excellent track record of project management from initiation to timely launch of products by working closely with R&D, QA, Manufacturing and other related functions

He has several patents and publications to his credit. He has delivered seminars at various national and international forums

Dr. Rakesh Bhasin has been awarded FDD Leadership Award 2018 by Express Pharma Pulse (Indian Express) on 15th June’18 at Novotel Hotel, Hyderabad. This award has been given to him for contribution in the field of formulation development and drug delivery.