Dr. Brij. M. Gandhi, M.Sc.(Biochemistry) and Ph.D.(Experimental Medicine, Norway) is presently Chief Executive Officer and founder of Neo BioMed Services (www.neobiomed.com), providing services and consultancy in health areas and regulatory issues related to biopharmaceuticals, pharmaceuticals, including stem cell and regenerative medicine. He retired in 2006 as Adviser to the Government of India, Ministry of Science and Technology, Department of Biotechnology. Dr. Gandhi was involved in management, promotion and policy issues in biotechnology related to international collaborations, medical biotechnology including stem cells and regenerative medicine, infrastructure development, animals and aquaculture biotechnology, biosafety and biosecurity. Prior to that he was Research Scientist at AIIMS, New Delhi working on immunology of parasitic, bacterial and viral infections including amoebic diseases; hepatitis; liver diseases; In vitro diagnostics (IVD); food and nutritional health issues.
Dr. Gandhi was trained at Massachusettes Institute of Technology, USA; London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London,United Kingdom; National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, USA; Hvidovre Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark; and University of Bergan, Norway. Dr. Gandhi continues to serve as Advisor / Director to a number of institutions / pharma and biopharma industries having an experience of about 51 years as research scientist, science manager, adviser / consultant and over 155 publications in national and international journals.
Dr. Gandhi was born in a middle class family on 9th March,1946 at Lahore, undivided India at that time, and migrated to Delhi at the time of partition in 1947.