Zahir Akhunzada
Bristol-Myers Squibb, USA
Biography
Zahir Akhunzada is a PPD Consultant in the Analytical & Bioanalytical Development department at Bristol-Myers Squibb in New Brunswick, New Jersey where he is responsible for the analysis and characterization of proteins by MFI. Before joining PPD, he worked for Schering-Plough/Merck. He was Assistant Prof. at King Saud University Riyadh Saudi Arabia and a Guest Investigator at the VA Hospital in Newark, NJ. He has a broad range of expertise in R&D, spectroscopy, chromatography, wet analytical techniques and biologics. He acquired research experience in the Netherland, Pakistan and earned his PhD in Chemistry in 1992. He did his Post doctorate in Germany, has several research publications and co-authored, a textbook with Prof. Atta-ur-Rahman on “Streoselective Synthesis in Organic Chemistry”, published (1993) by Springer Verlag, New York.