Dilip Ashtekar PhD

Dr. Ashtekar is a results-oriented collaborative and industry-recognized expert leader in microbiology and sterile product manufacturing, with over 30 years of a successful and proven record of increasing responsibilities in leading pharmaceutical small molecule, biotechnology (monoclonal antibodies), biologically-derived protein therapeutics, cell therapy, plasma fractionation, and plasma-based products, and vaccine industries. He is a member of the United States Pharmacopeia (USP) Expert Microbiology Committee (2010-Current). In addition, he serves as one of the key experts of several Parenteral Drug Association (PDA) taskforces and has co-authored several Technical Reports, including Technical Report No. 13, “Fundamentals of an Environmental Monitoring Program”, and Technical Report No. 33, “Evaluation, Validation, and Implementation of Alternative and Rapid Microbiological Methods”