Ravi Kalyanaraman and Varsha Ganesh

Ravi Kalyanaraman, PhD, is an Associate Director at Bristol-Myers Squibb Company in the Global Analytical Technology group within Quality, Global Manufacturing and Supply. He received his PhD from the University of Idaho in 1995 and did his postdoctoral work at the University of Puerto Rico. He served as a faculty member in the department of chemistry at Bemidji State University in Minnesota from 1996 to 2001. He has been with Bristol-Myers Squibb since 2002. His laboratory work in the past with Bristol-Myers Squibb was primarily in developing, validating and transferring chromatographic and MS methods for Quality control laboratories. In the last eight years he has focused on developing new and novel techniques to detect pharmaceutical counterfeits and raw material identification using vibrational spectroscopic techniques, such as Raman, mid-, and near-infrared (NIR). Currently, he leads a team of analytical scientists that are involved in the forensic and manufacturing investigation for products received from product complaints, corporate security and also from various manufacturing sites including third party manufacturing. Also, his laboratory is currently developing new and novel Raman spectral fingerprint techniques for biologics drugs which can be used to screen counterfeit biologics. Varsha Ganesh is an Associate Scientist at Bristol-Myers Squibb Company in the Global Analytical Technology group with Global Manufacturing and Supply. She received her Masters in Biotechnology from Pennsylvania State University and has been with Bristol-Myers Squibb since 2013. She works on spectral authentication of suspect counterfeits, method development for counterfeit biologics, raw material qualification using vibrational spectroscopic techniques and also on analytical method transfers and analytical robustness initiatives.