Tapan Sanghvi, Ph.D.

Scientific Fellow
Vertex Pharmaceuticals

Tapan Sanghvi is a Scientific Fellow I of Formulation Development at Vertex Pharmaceuticals Inc., Cambridge, MA. He leads a team of dedicated scientists focused on preformulation characterization, formulation design, process scale-up and technology transfer for solid dosage forms.

Dr. Sanghvi is a leader in the development of drug delivery technologies with a special focus on spray dry dispersions, making significant advancements in this area as the pharmaceutical development leader of telaprevir. He is a strong advocate for Quality by Design and biopharmaceutical modeling. He has authored many publications and made numerous presentations during his career in the pharmaceutical industry.

He holds an M.B.A. in Marketing and Finance from the Institute of Management Services in Indore (India) and a Ph.D. in Pharmaceutical Sciences from the University of Arizona.