PROJECT TITLE & ACRONYM: Chalcogen and Halogen Bonding for the Synthesis of Multi-component Pharmaceutical Materials: Crystal Engineering to Formulation (MULTI-xTAL)

Vijith earned a Master's degree in Analytical Chemistry from Mangalore University. After working for a short time in pharmaceutical industry he moved to Indian institute of Science, Bangalore and worked as a research fellow with Professor T. N Guru Row from 2012-2013 in the area of chemical crystallography and materials design. In 2017, he obtained a PhD degree for the study of Halogen and hydrogen bond based crystal engineering from Polytechnic University of Milan, Italy, under the supervision of Professor Giuseppe Resnati. During his doctoral studies, he worked three months as visiting researcher with Professor Makoto Fujita at University of Tokyo, Japan. Soon after PhD, he worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the same University with Professor Pierangelo Metrangolo for a year (2017-2018) in the area of halogen bond mediated macromolecular self-assembly. Later, he worked as a postdoctoral fellow with Professor David L. Bryce at University of Ottawa, Canada (2018-2019) in the scope of solid-state NMR spectroscopy to probe the noncovalent interactions.  

His current research at Professor Mike Zawarorko’s group focuses on the design and development of new multi-component pharmaceutical materials based on the crystal engineering principles to address the issue of poor (bio) pharmaceutical properties of active pharmaceutical ingredients.

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PROJECT TITLE & ACRONYM: Flow chemistry for advanced pharmaceutical manufacturing (FLOWRE)

Nowadays, one of the biggest challenges facing pharma industry is inefficient manufacturing. As a result, the pharmaceutical industry wastes around $50 billion a year. An appropriate solution to resolve the problem is development of continuous pharmaceutical manufacture. FLOWRE will work toward addressing development of a novel continuous drug synthesis.

Mahdi is a Chemical and Biochemical engineer with BEng degree in Chemical Engineering, MEng degree in Chemical Engineering, separation processes (solvent extraction and CFD simulation of membrane processes), and PhD in development a quantification method to measure metal recovery in bioprocess using X-ray µCT.  He worked for two years as a research assistant on modelling and simulation of membrane separation processes. His previous work has refined his technical skills, particularly, analytical techniques, and good practices regarding bioprocess, solvent extraction and (bio)leaching of metal ions, modelling and simulation of separation processes. Madhi holds profound knowledge in chemical and biochemical engineering technologies and sciences such as kinetics and reaction engineering, transport phenomena and especially separation processes.  His work is particularly interested in process engineering that embraces various biochemical and chemical engineering subjects and utilizes experimental work, modelling, design and calculation procedures.