Nilesh Desai, (M.Pharm), currently is pursuing Doctor of Philosophy under the faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences specializing in Quality Assurance Techniques from Bharati Vidyapeeth University, Pune. He has nominated and selected for Ph.D under JRF sponsored by UGC, New Delhi. He has deep understanding of Quality by design (QbD) techniques in formulation and development as per ICH guidelines. He has more than one year of industrial experience in the department of quality assurance, conducted various activities such as handling IPQA; equipment qualification of solid oral facility; handling QMS; GDP practices; vendors Qualification; Internal audit compliances; Product Quality Review (PQR); handling investigations etc. He has completed Diploma in Intellectual Property Law. He also involved in project designing and writing for various government funding agencies and also in publication of research papers.