Dr. Ashok Tehim is Senior Vice President of Strategy. He joined Pharmaron in August 2015. Prior to this, he worked at Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories as Vice President, Proprietary Product, External R&D for NCEs, from 2009 to July 2015, and at Memory Pharmaceuticals, as Vice President of Medicinal Chemistry & CMC (2000-2009). He served at NPS/Allelix, as Director of Medicinal Chemistry (1993-2000). Dr. Tehim has twenty years of pharmaceutical experience in research, early drug development of first-in-class/best-in-class innovative products addressing unmet medical needs in neurology, psychiatry, pain, migraine, inflammation and the oncology therapeutic fields.
He has advanced six novel investigational products for Phase-1/human translational studies/Phase ll proof of concept studies in collaborative partnerships with Bayer, J&J, Amgen, and Roche. He has extensive experience in novel targets identification and validation, drug innovation, drug ability & development assessment, and backward-forward translational studies. He has been involved with strategic pharma alliance management, externalization of R&D, and developed CRO/CMO partnerships for integrated drug discovery. He has additionally been involved in ADME, GLP safety and toxicology, chemical and pharmaceutical development, cGMP API & CTM manufacturing, clinical packaging, IND regulatory filings, and Phase-I/II clinical studies. Dr. Tehim is a co-inventor on 75 patents, and the co-author of 50 publications/reviews.