·Dr. Piyush Pradeep Mehta is currently working as deputy manager in global respiratory R&D at Cipla R&D Centre, Mumbai, India. Dr. Piyush has rich experience in the field of inhaled drug products. He has worked in reputed pharmaceutical companies like Cipla R&D and Zydus Cadila. He has been instrumental in completing a few dry powder inhaler (DPIs) products in India. He has been elected as prestigious Newton-Bhabha Fund, Royal Society Of Chemistry (RSC) Researcher (2019-2020) owing to his contribution to the field of pulmonary drug delivery. He has been selected for On-Demand Presentations on pulmonary drug delivery from The Drug Delivery to the Lungs (DDL 2020), UK because of his contribution to modified throat research. He has also received appreciation for the contribution for Institution’s Innovation Council by MHRD's Innovation Cell, Government of India (2018-2019). He was a guest editor for a special issue “Advances in Orally Inhaled and Nasal Drug Products” in “Frontiers in Pharmacology” journal. He has filed 4 device patents and published more than 45 articles, book chapters, and scientific communications related to his proficiency in several peer-reviewed journals. He has delivered > 20 presentations at several international summits.Dr. Vividha Dhapte-Pawar is working as Associate Professor in department of Pharmaceutics at Poona College of Pharmacy, Pune. Dr. Vividha has worked in novel drug delivery systems, especially nano-formulations, pulmonary medicines, and chemotherapeutics. Dr. Vividha has 02 patent published, 40 international papers and 10 book chapters to her credit. She is a recipient of 6 Gold Medals during her academics as well as at various national competitions along with awards for best oral and poster presentations at national and international conferences. Dr. Vividha is a recipient of AICTE fellowship, Dhirubhai Ambani Scholarship, and Ratan Tata Trust Fellowship. Also, she has received research grants, travel grants from UGC, Bharati Vidyapeeth University, and Pune University. She serves as a consultant for, microbial testing, student start-ups and generic medicines in Hospitals.
