Jayant Khandare

Dr. Jayant J. Khandare is the Managing Director (MD) and Chief Scientific Officer (CSO) of Actorius Innovations and Research Pvt Ltd. After earning his bachelor’s and masters degree in Pharmacy. Jayant received a Ph.D. (Polymer Chemistry) in Chemical Engineering from the prestigious National Chemical Laboratory, Pune, in 2003. Post Ph.D., Jayant completed two postdoctoral tenures in the School of Medicine, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, USA and the Dept. of Pharmaceutics, Rutgers, The State University, Piscataway, New Jersey, USA. He worked extensively on targeted nano polymeric drug delivery systems for Cancer. Jayant’s excellent work resulted in him being awarded the prestigious Alexander Von Humboldt Experienced Researcher Award and he worked for one year in Germany with Prof.Dr.Rainer Haag at Freie University, Berlin, Germany in the field of Macromolecular Chemistry. He then established and led the Polymer Chemistry Group at Piramal Life Sciences. Jayant has published more than 40 papers in peer-reviewed journals and has 14 US patents to his credit. Jayant brings to the table an eclectic mix of knowledge in subjects as diverse as pharmaceutics, chemical engineering, polymer chemistry and cancer biology.

Fellow of Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC).

Royal Society of Chemistry, UK | 2014

Alexander von Humboldt (AvH) Experienced Researcher.

Humboldt Foundation, Germany | 2008

Ph.D. (Chemical Engineering)

National Chemical Laboratory (NCL), Pune | 2003

Master of Pharmacy (M.Pharm)

University of Mumbai | 1995

15+ US Patents, 60+ Peer Reviewed Scientific Articles

Postdoctoral stints at Wayne State University (USA), Rutgers University (USA) and Freie Universität Berlin (Germany) in the area of targeted drug delivery for cancer.