About me

Dr. Anthony  Melvin Crasto, graduated from Mumbai  University, Completed his Ph.D from ICT, 1991, Mumbai, India, in the field of Organic Chemistry, Currently he is working with AFRICUURE PHARMA as ADVISOR, earlier GLENMARK PHARMACEUTICALS LTD,  Research Centre as a Principal Scientist, in Process Research at Mahape, Navi Mumbai, India, for the last 10 years,  His total  Industry experience is  30 +yrs with major Multinationals companies.

Prior to joining Glenmark, he has worked with major multinationals like Hoechst Marion Roussel, now Sanofi, Searle India Ltd, now  RPG lifesciences, etc. He has worked with notable Scientists like Dr K Nagarajan, Dr Ralph Stapel, Prof S Seshadri , Dr T.V. Radhakrishnan and Dr B. K. Kulkarni, etc, He did Custom Synthesis for various multinationals in his career like BASF, Novartis, Sanofi, Pfizer etc., He has worked in Drug Discovery, Natural products, Bulk Drugs, Generics, Intermediates, Fine chemicals, Neutraceuticals, GMP,  Scaleups, Pharma Plant, API plant etc, he is now helping millions, His friends call him worlddrugtracker.

His New Drug Approvals,  All about drugs,  Eurekamoments, Organic spectroscopy international, etc in Organic/ Medchem  are some most read blogs. He has hands on experience in initiation and developing Novel routes for Drug molecules and implementing them on commercial scale over a 30  year tenure till date Feb’  2018,  Around 30 plus commercial products in his career. He has good knowledge of IPM, GMP, QbD, Regulatory aspects, Technology transfer,  Manufacturing,  Formulations, Spectroscopy, Stereochemistry, Synthesis, Polymorphism etc. He has several  International  patents published worldwide.

He suffered a one in a million disease in the form of a paralytic stroke/ Acute Transverse Mylitis in Dec’ 2007 and is 90 % paralysed, He is bound to a wheelchair, this seems to have injected feul in him to help chemists all around the world, he is more active than before and is pushing boundaries, he has several million hits on Google,  60 Lakh plus views on dozen plus blogs, He makes himself available to all, contact him on +91 9323115463, email amcrasto@gmail.com, Twitter, @amcrasto

He is a prolific presenter and is invited to major conferences in Mumbai, where he can travel easily. He speaks at universities on topics of  Drug discovery, Patents, Qbd, GMP, Tech transfer, polymorphism, Literature search tools, Computer programs and Topics of  interest to Pharma Students.

His extraordinary skill on the Computers give him the edge to write/present his thoughts. He demonstrates them to students and professionals alike.

Notably he has 20 lakh plus views on New Drug Approvals Blog in 216 countries, This blog has 3.5 lakh viewers in USA alone.

Awards

“100 Most Impactful Health care Leaders Global listing”, conferred at Taj lands end, Mumbai, India on 14 Feb 2017 by World Health Wellness congress and awards

 

“Best Worlddrugtracker “ Award for lifetime acheivement in Pharma… 7 th July 2017 , The venue…Taj land ends, Bandra, Mumbai India

 

“Lifetime achievement award” WORLD HEALTH CONGRESS 2017 in Hyderabad, 22 aug 2017 at JNTUH KUKATPALLY. HYDERABAD, TELANGANA, INDIA,

 

” Lifetime Achievement Award”, at the The Middle East Healthcare Leadership Awards – 12th October, 2017 -The Address, Dubai Mall, Dubai…UAE……….Mohammed Bin Rashid Boulevard, Downtown Dubai – Dubai – United Arab Emirates

 

International award for Outstanding contribution in Pharma  at World Health and wellness Congress award, 14th Feb, 2018, at Taj Lands ends, Bandra, Mumbai, India

 

Conferred very prestigious IDMA award for contribution to society in Pharma at INDIAN DRUGS ANNUAL DAY 2018 VMCC IITBombay Powai, Mumbai India 22 Feb 2018,I was Guest of honor at and was felicitated by president,Indian Drug manufacturers association (IDMA)

 

Award conferred  The Golden Globe Tigers Awards 2018, for Excellence in Pharma, at kuala lumpur, Malaysia, 23 april 2018 at Pullman hotel.

 

Conferred prestigious individual national award at function for contribution to Pharma society from Times Network, National Awards for Marketing Excellence ( For Excellence in HEALTHCARE) | 5th July, 2018 | Taj Lands End, Mumbai INDIA

 

Conferred award for Excellence in Pharma by CMO ASIA Award 31st July – 1st August, 2018 | Le Méridien Singapore, Sentosa

 

Life time Achievement Award by Bioleagues at  4th World Summit on Pharmaceutics Drug Designs, Dubai, UAE. Sep 21-22, 2018  at Flora creek Dubai UAE

 

Conferred prestigious ABPnews award for “Outstanding contribution to Education Sector” at event ABP News Presents Healthcare Leadership Awards 26th November, 2018 at Taj Lands End, Mumbai India

 

Honoured to get Award by ETnow for Outstanding contribution to social service at ET Now Presents World Mental Health Congress Co – Hosted with World Health & Wellness Awards, 15th February, 2019. | Taj Lands End, Mumbai, India

 

Honoured to get prestigious “SPER Innovative Researcher Award” The award was given in the SPER 8th Annual International Conference & Exhibition [SPER 2019] at VYWS’S Inst of pharma education and Research, Wardha [Maharashtra] India on February 23, 2019

Life time Achievement award at BioLEAGUES Worldwide at the 5th International Conference on Pharmaceuticals, API & Mfg. with the theme Enabling Technologies for API, Formulation & Manufacturing Aston Priority Simatupang Hotel & Conference Center, Jakarta, Indonesia on March 15th, 2019.

Biography

READ MY BIOGRAPHY……….http://scijourno.com/2017/01/09/dr-anthony-crasto/  Written by Mr. Amrit B. Karmarkar
Director, InClinition

 

DR ANTHONY MELVIN CRASTO Ph.D , Born in Mumbai in 1964 and graduated from Mumbai University, Completed his PhD from ICT ,1991, Mumbai, India in Organic chemistry, The thesis topic was Synthesis of Novel Pyrethroid Analogues,

Currently he is working with GLENMARK PHARMA LTD, Research centre as Principal Scientist, Process Research (bulk actives) at Mahape, Navi Mumbai, India.

Prior to joining Glenmark, he worked with major multinationals like Hoechst Marion Roussel, now Sanofi Aventis, & Searle India ltd, now RPG lifesciences, etc. He has worked in Basic research, Neutraceuticals, Natural products, Flavors, Fragrances, Pheromones, Vet Drugs, Drugs, formulation, GMP etc. He has total 30 yrs exp in this field, he is now helping millions, has million hits on google on all organic chemistry websites.

His New Drug Approvals , Green Chemistry International, Eurekamoments in Organic Chemistry , Organic Chemistry Select, WIX BLOG , ALL ABOUT DRUGS, WORLD DRUG TRACKER, MEDICINAL CHEM INTERNATIONAL, DRUG SYN INTERNATIONAL,SCALEUP OF DRUGS, ALL FOR DRUGSON WEB, are some most read chemistry blogs

SEE

• Green Chemistry International,
• ORGANIC SPECTROSCOPY INTERNATIONAL
• ORGANIC SYNTHESIS INTERNATIONAL
• ORGANIC CHEMISTRY INTERNATIONAL
• DR ANTHONY MELVIN CRASTO OLD BLOG
• DRUG PATENTS INTERNATIONAL
• Organic Chemistry Select,
• Drug regulatory affairs international
• ONE ORGANIC CHEMIST ONE DAY
• API SYNTHESIS INTERNATIONAL
• DRUG APPROVALS INTERNATIONAL

MEDIA

RESEARCHGATE, LINKEDIN, SLIDESHARE, ACADEMIA.EDU, GOOGLE PLUS, FACEBOOK, TWITTER, GRAVATAR, YOUTUBE,

He has hands on experience in initiation and developing novel routes for drug molecules and implementation them on commercial scale over a 30 year tenure, good knowledge of IPM, GMP, Regulatory aspects, he has several international drug patents published worldwide .

He has good proficiency in Technology Transfer, Spectroscopy , Stereochemistry , Synthesis, Reactions in Org Chem , Polymorphism, Pharmaceuticals , Medicinal chemistry, Organic chemistry literature , Patent related site , Green chemistry , Reagents , R & D , Molecules , Heterocyclic chem ,Sourcing etc

He suffered a paralytic stroke in dec 2007 and is bound to a wheelchair, this seems to have injected feul in him to help chemists around the world, he is more active than before and is pushing boundaries, he has 2.5 lakh connections on all networking sites, He makes himself available to all, contact him on +91 9323115463, amcrasto@gmail.com, Twitter @amcrasto

SEE MY CHINA, VIETNAM AND JAPAN BLOGS

http://amcrasto.blog.fc2.com/

http://blog.sina.com.cn/u/5030268874

http://ameblo.jp/medchem-amcrasto/

http://me.zing.vn/u/amcrasto

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GROUPS

You can post articles and will be administered by me on the google group which is very popular across the world, OPD GROUPSPACES, SCOOP OCI, organic-process-developmentGOOGLE, TVINX, MENDELEY WDT,SCIPEOPLE OPD, EPERNICUS OPD, SYNTHETIC ORGANIC CHEMISTRYLinkedIn group, DIIGO OPD,LINKEDIN OPD, WDT LINKEDIN, WDTI ZING,WORLD DRUG TRACKER FACEBOOK

ALSO web link

ABOUTME, BRAND ANTHONYCRASTO, ANTHONY M CRASTO weebly, Anthony M Crasto Strikingly, COLLECTION OF SITE LINKS, BRAVESITES, JIMDO, SKILLPAGES, MIXXT,APNACIRCLE, ZIC ZAC, ZING ME, SCOOP IT, SCRIBD, STUMBLEUPON, DELICIOUS, PININTEREST, TUMBLIR, NEWSVINE, ISSUU,DIIGO, YOLASITE,  RESEARCHGATE, LINKEDIN, SLIDESHARE, ACADEMIA.EDU, GOOGLE PLUS, FACEBOOK, TWITTER, GRAVATAR,AUTHORSTREAM, SYMBALOOO, ISSUU, BLOGLOVIN,FRIENDFEED,NEWSVINE, TREPUP, XING, TIXXT, YOUTUBE, JUJUJU,

 

Sr no	blog	Hits LAKHS	link	remarks
1	New Drug Approvals ,	20	https://newdrugapprovals.org/	218 countries
­­­­	ORGANIC SPECTROSCOPY INTERNATIONAL	10	https://orgspectroscopyint.blogspot.in/
3	API SYNTHESIS INTERNATIONAL	1.8	http://apisynthesisint.blogspot.in/
4	ONE ORGANIC CHEMIST ONE DAY	2,4	http://oneorganichemistoneday.blogspot.in/
5	WORLD DRUG TRACKER	3.8	http://worlddrugtracker.blogspot.in/
6	MEDICINAL CHEM INTERNATIONAL	2,2	http://medcheminternational.blogspot.in/
7	ALL ABOUT DRUGS	1.6	http://www.allfordrugs.com/
8	DRUG PATENTS INTENATIONAL	1.8	http://drugpatentsint.blogspot.in/
9	Green Chemistry International,	0.11	https://greenchemclips.wordpress.com/
10	Drug regulatory affairs international	0.87	https://amcrasto.wordpress.com/
11	Organic Chemistry Select	0.55	https://anthonycrasto.wordpress.com/
12	ORGANIC CHEMISTRY INTERNATIONAL	1.87	http://organicchemistrysite.blogspot.in/
13	ORGANIC SYNTHESIS INTERNATIONAL	2.34	http://organicsynthesisinternational.blogspot.in/
14	DRUG APPROVALS INTERNATIONAL	0.11	http://drugapprovalsint.com/
15	Eurekamoments in Organic Chemistry ,	0.5	http://amcrasto.theeurekamoments.com/
16	WIX BLOG ,	0.2	http://amcrasto.wix.com/anthony-melvin-crasto/apps/blog
17	ALL FOR DRUGSON WEB,		http://amcrasto.webs.com/
		50 plus

 

 

DR ANTHONY MELVIN CRASTO Ph.D

amcrasto@gmail.com

 

P.S. : The views expressed are my personal and in no-way suggest the views of the professional body or the company that I represent.

P.S. : The views expressed are my personal and in no-way suggest the views of the professional body or the company that I represent.

P.S. : The views expressed are my personal and in no-way suggest the views of the professional body or the company that I represent.