Global OSD Leader
Ashland Specialty Ingredients
Kapish Karan, MS
Global OSD Leader, Pharmaceuticals R&D, Ashland Lifesciences
At Ashland, Global OSD R&D Leader Kapish Karan is focused on pharmaceutical oral solid dosage, leading long-term innovation and providing support for strategic customers. He has more than ten years of experience in film-coating applications, the design of immediate- and modified-release coating products, unit operations associated with the preparation of oral solid dosage forms.
His recent expertise has expanded into continuous processing as it relates to the manufacture of oral solid dosage forms.
He holds several patents pertaining to pharmaceutical and nutritional supplements dosage form design and film coating technologies and has published and presented on granulation, coating technology, and taste masking at various technical conferences.