Makarand Jawadekar, Ph.D.

Dr. Makarand (Mak) Jawadekar is currently an independent pharma professional. He worked at Pfizer, Inc. for 28 consecutive years as Director, Portfolio Management. During his tenure at Pfizer, he was responsible for external Drug Delivery Technology Assessment. He has extensive experience in creating and cultivating partnerships and alliances.

His experience with Pfizer R&D includes Solids R&D, Drug Product formulation/Dosage Form/Drug Delivery development, Clinical Trials Supply Manufacturing, Scale-up and Technology Transfer, Pharma R&D outsourcing, and Pharmacy. He was the Bench Scientist who worked on the challenging Sertraline (ZOLOFT) tablet formulation. In the recent past, he had been also been engaged in coordinating outsourced R&D activities with external partners.

Mak began his professional career at Pfizer Central Research in early 1982, after having completed his Ph.D. in Pharmaceutics at the University of Minnesota. He was honored with an honorary D.Sc. degree by DYP Mumbai University, recommended by the President of India in Feb 2011.