Speaker Biography
Radha Tirumalai
Radhakrishna Tirumalai, PhD, is a Senior Scientist in the USP, Division of Documentary Standards. He is the Staff Liaison to the USP Expert Committees on microbiology and sterility assurance, and general toxicology and medical device biocompatibility. He works with the industry/ academia/ government and the USP Expert Committee in the development and revision of general chapters and monographs in these areas. He has been with the USP since 2003. Prior industry experience encompasses process and product research &development, process and product transfer and product manufacturing. He holds a PhD degree in biochemistry. His postdoctoral work included studies on HIV and MuLV reverse transcriptases and bacteriophage lambda integrase. He has authored several publications, and, has been a speaker at many national and international scientific meetings.