C.T. Viswanthan
US Food and Drug Administration, USA

Dr.Viswanathan is currently Associate Director in the Division of Scientific Investigations, Office of Compliance, Center for Drugs & Evaluation Research, FDA.  He has supervisory responsibilities in the scientific and regulatory administration of GLP and Bioequivalence Inspectional programs.

He received his B.Sc and M.Sc degrees in Chemistry from the Presidency College, Madras, India.  He received a M.S. in Organometallic Chemistry from Marquette University, Milwaukee, M.S. in CNS Pharmacology and Ph.D in Pharmacokinectics from the University of Wisconsin, Madison.  Following post-doctoral research at the University of Georgia and the University of Washington, Seattle, he joined the FDA.

In FDA, Dr.Viswanathan has served as reviewer, Chief of Pharmacokinetics Branch and the acting Director of the Division of Biopharmaceutics prior to joining the Office of Compliance.

He has represented the Agency in numerous national and international meetings and has authored several research publications. He has taught Pharmacology, Drug metabolism, Pharmacokinetics and Biopharmaceutics  at the University of Wisconsin, University of Montreal,  FDA Staff College and NIH Graduate School .  He has served on numerous committees in FDA ,  NIH, PhRMA, SQA, BSAT and AAPS.  He is a past Chair of the Regulatory Sciences section of AAPS. He is a Fellow of the American Association of Pharmaceutical Sciences and the recipient of numerous FDA awards. Dr.Viswanthan is  the Chair of the FDA GLP Modernization Working Group and represents the Agency in OECD.