MEEX Speaker
SAHI Jasminder, PhD
Senior Director, Department of Translational Medicine and Exploratory Development, Sanofi R&D, China
Biography
Jasminder Sahi obtained a Ph.D. degree (Pharmacognosy, 1991) from Panjab University, India and then participated in a post-doctoral program in the Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Illinois at Chicago. She started her career in the Pharmaceutical Industry in the Department of Pharmacokinetics and Drug Metabolism (Parke Davis R&D), which was subsequently acquired by Pfizer Global Research and Development. In 2006, she joined a new venture (CellzDirect) as the Vice President R&D. In 2012 she moved to Shanghai China, as Head of DMPK for GlaxoSmithKline Research and Development and in 2015 made the transition to Sanofi R&D leading the DMPK efforts in the Asia Pacific region. Jasminder’s research focus is on transporters and induction of drug metabolizing enzymes, using primary hepatocytes. While her initial forays into transporter research involved ion transport to understand CFTR, at Pfizer she changed her focus to xenobiotic transporters, with the goal of improving drug disposition, delivery and safety. She has worked extensively with hepatic and renal transporters as well as the blood-brain-barrier. She is an elected member of the ISSX council, a reviewer for six journals and has authored over 40 peer-reviewed publications.
