Dr. Vaishali Londhe
Professor, Chairperson – PG Programme
Specialization : Pharmaceutics
E mail : vaishali.londhe@nmims.edu
Phone : 022-42332000 (Extn-2030)
Experience : 23 years after Ph D (Industry - 9 years, Academics - 14 years)
Industry: Worked in Sun Pharmaceutical Advanced Research Centre as executive and Aurobindo Pharmaceutical Limited Research Centre, Mumbai as Group leader responsible for analytical method development, validation, documentation etc.
Academics:
- PG Chairperson from 1st July 2022 – 30th June 2023
- Section Head Pharmaceutics from 1st July 2021 –30th June 2022
- Head of Pharmaceutics and allied Departments from July 2020 -30th June 2021
- Head Of Department - Quality Assurance from July 2009 – September 2012 and 28th March 2013 till 30th April 2015
- In-charge Head of Department for Pharmaceutics from February 2010 – June 2010
- Head of Department of Industrial Pharmacy from 1st September 2016 – 30th November 2017
- Chairperson for Part time M Pharm since February 2011 – 2013
- In-charge Project Placement Committee since February 2011 -2015
- In-charge Central Instrumentation Laboratory, SPPSPTM since June 2015 – April 2017, December 2017 – 30th June 2021
- Extracurricular Committee In-charge from May 2017 – 1st December 2017
Interest areas:
- Novel drug delivery systems like nanoparticles, liposomes, microneedles
- Solubility enhancement methods like solid dispersions, inclusion complexation, SMEDDS, co-crystals for improvement in bioavailability
- Modified oral delivery like ODT, oral jelly etc. using Design of Experiments (DOE)
- Transdermal drug delivery
- Analytical/ bioanalytical method development and validation, impurity profiling
- Herbal formulation development
Research
- Publications – Total number (International-67, National-5)
- Books- Nil
- Book Chapters- 4
- Patents- 4 (Granted) + 1published + 1 provisional
- Presentations- Total number (International- 17, National-23)
- Government funded projects – Total number 1
- Completed (‘Microneedles: can be a good option for antipsychotic drug delivery?’ , DST SERB, Rs 3083360)
- Analytical Method development and validation for Assay and related substances of Isotretinoin liposomal gel by IPCA Laboratories Ltd – Rs. 1.5 Lakh (completed)
- Dermatopharmacokinetic studies of Derma Products by Ajanta Pharma Ltd – Rs 47,200 (Completed)
- Formulation and evaluation capsules containing solubilized Febuxostat for bioavailability enhancement – Rs. 25,000 by ACG Capsules (Completed)
- To Prepare orally disintegrating film of Sildenafil using pullulan – Rs 1,00,000/- by Nagasse India Pvt Ltd (Completed)
Systematic investigation and screening of super refined excipients (SR excipients) relevant as Penetration enhancer (PE’s) / solubilizers in adhesive based transdermal patch formulations’ – by Croda India Company Pvt Ltd, Total amount Rs 2,84,970, Started in September 2022
Conferences/Workshops/Seminars attended- 15
Academic activities
She has guided 110 M.Pharm. Students for their research projects.
She has guided 6 PhDs successfully and 4 candidates are registered under her supervision.
Awards
- DST International Travel Scheme (ITS) of Rs 62700/- to attend and to participate in "46th Controlled Release Society Annual meeting and Exposition, Spain (21 July, 2019 to 24 July, 2019)
- DST Travel grant (Rs 92,036/-) and NMIMS grant (Rs 50,000/-) to present posters at AAPS 2012 Annual Conference and Exhibition held on 14-18th October 2012 at Chicago IL
Professional Memberships
- Registered Pharmacist (Life member) under Maharashtra State Pharmacy Council.
- Life member of Indian Pharmaceutical Association
- Member of Controlled Release Society, Local Chapter
- Life member of Association of Pharmaceutical Teachers of India
- Life member of Society of Pharmaceutical Education and Research (SPER)
Recent Publications
- Jalundhwala, F. and Londhe, V. (2023), "A systematic review on implementing operational excellence as a strategy to ensure regulatory compliance: a roadmap for Indian pharmaceutical industry", International Journal of Lean Six Sigma, Vol. 14 No. 4, pp. 730-758. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJLSS-04-2022-0078, (Impact factor – 5.686)
- Vaishali Y Londhe, Rupali S Bhadale, Zein-maltodextrin nanocomplex based dissolving microneedle: A promising approach for Paliperidone palmitate delivery, International Journal of Biological Macromolecules, Volume 244, 31 July 2023, 125418
- Forum Jalundhwala, Vaishali Londhe, Bharat Shah, Ensuring regulatory compliance by quality by design (QbD) approach to optimize the manufacturing process of API: ferric ammonium citrate as an example, Chemical Papers, volume 77, pages 1469–1477, March 2023
- Rupali S. Bhadale, Vaishali Y. Londhe, A comparison of dissolving microneedles and transdermal film with solid microneedles for iloperidone in vivo: a proof of concept’ in the Naunyn-Schmiedeberg's Archives of Pharmacology 2023 Feb;396(2):239-246. (Impact Factor 3.195)
- Rupali Bhadale, Vaishali Londhe, Solid microneedles assisted transepidermal delivery of iloperidone loaded film: Characterization and skin deposition studies, Journal of Drug Delivery Science and Technology, 79 (2023) 104028