Girish Masand is a corporate affiliate visiting fellow at Shorenstein APARC for 2009-10.  Prior to joining Shorenstein APARC, he has been working for Reliance Life Sciences at Navi Mumbai (India), as a Senior Research Scientist in therapeutic proteins.  His job responsibilities include the design of purification processes for therapeutic biotechnology products, process optimization and trouble-shooting of production processes, implementation of Quality by Design (QbD) for therapeutic biotechnology products, validation studies, characterization of final product and dossier preparations for regulatory submissions.  Masand will be doing his doctoral reserch in therapeutic proteins group.  He has previously worked with Intas Pharmaceuticals at Ahmedabad prior to joining Reliance Life Sciences in June 2001.