Dr. Anthony Melvin Crasto graduated from Mumbai University and completed his Ph.D. from ICT Mumbai, India in 1991 in the field of Organic Chemistry. Currently, he is working with Africure Pharma, Row2Tech, NIPER-G, Dept Pharma, Ministry Chem and Fert Govt of India as an Advisor. Previous assignment was Consultant Glenmark Life Sciences Ltd,  Research Centre as a Consultant, in Process Research at Mahape, Navi Mumbai, India, for the last 17+ years, retired from Glenmark in Jan 2022. His total Industry experience is 32 +yrs with major multinational companies.

Prior to joining Glenmark, he worked with major multinationals like Hoechst Marion Roussel, (now Sanofi), Searle India Ltd, (now RPG Lifesciences), etc. He has worked with notable Scientists like Dr. K Nagarajan, Dr. Ralph Stapel, Prof S Seshadri, etc, He also did Custom Synthesis for various multinationals in his career like BASF, Novartis, Sanofi, Pfizer, etc. He has worked in Drug Discovery, Natural products, Bulk Drugs, Generics, Intermediates, Fine chemicals, Neutraceuticals, GMP,  Scaleups, Pharma Plant, API plants, etc. He is now helping millions, his friends call him Worlddrugtracker.

His New Drug Approvals, All About Drugs,  Eurekamoments, Organic Spectroscopy International, etc in Organic/ Medchem are some most read blogs. He has hands-on experience in initiating and developing Novel routes for Drug molecules and implementing them on a commercial scale over a 30 plus year tenure till date Sep 2021, around 30 plus commercial products in his career. He has good knowledge of IPM, GMP, QbD, Regulatory aspects, Technology transfer, Manufacturing, Formulations, Spectroscopy, Stereochemistry, Synthesis, Polymorphism etc. He has several International patents(Dozen) published worldwide.