InnDevice™ Research – About Us

Satyashodhan Patil,
BE (Mechanical), PGDIBO, Stanford India Biodesign

Founder - InnDevice™ Research

Satyashodhan is founder of InnDevice™ Research firm. He is guiding various medical device and pharma companies on drug delivery device development through InnDevice™ Research. He is leading to set up device R&D and train resources responsible for end to end medical device development from conceptualization to commercialization through development, design verification, design validation studies such as stability, clinical, bio-compatibility, human factors and also supporting PLM activities. He is working for the development of several types of medical devices for several therapeutic uses for drug-device combination products (DDCP) such as pen injectors, auto injectors, applicators, Prefilled Syringes (PFS), implant injectors, ophthalmic devices, on body injectors, nasal sprays and inhalers.

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Experience:

  • He has an unique and pioneering experience working with Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Limited in R&D centre and was instrumental in successful development of various types of best in-class patient-centric drug delivery devices with implementing regulatory guidance (USFDA 21 CFR, EU MDR, MHRA, TGA, HC) and ISO standards for global market. He authored Sun Pharma’s Global Quality Standards, Global Standard Operating Procedures and Global Policy for Medical Devices and also implemented mechanical design engineering best practices to DDCP space. He was leading communications with several regulatory agencies for devices. Along with device development, he led automated assembly and testing machines development with the suppliers.
  • Satyashodhan was working with Johnson and Johnson Medical in Asia Pacific R&D centre for design and development of orthopaedic, heart and general surgery implant and instrumentation. As part of JnJ front end innovation team, he visited more than 120nos. hospitals and interviewed more than 180nos. doctors in India and China for conducting qualitative research for implants and instruments used in surgeries.
  • He also worked with GE Healthcare in it’s R&D centre as a design engineer for life sciences and diagnostics systems. He has 17+ years of extensive experience in medical device development with total 23+ years of experience in NPD.

Pioneering Contribution and Achievements:

  • Pioneer in bringing and implementing Design History File (DHF) concept to Drug-Device Combination Products in Indian Pharma Industry. The approach on SOPs and streamlined device development process was appreciated by several regulatory agencies.
  • Pioneer in successfully developing patient-centric medical devices for generic as well as novel drug-device combination products for India and global market.
  • Pioneer in educating Indian Universities and Pharma Industries on self-administration medical devices for drug-device combination products.
  • He led device development of several world’s first and world’s best patient-centric (based on sales data) revolutionary self-administration medical devices with Sun Pharma.

Education:

  • Satyashodhan is graduated in Mechanical Engineering with College 1st and University 4th rank from SRTM University, Maharashtra and also completed certificate course in Medical Device Development from Stanford University’s Centre at All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi.

Patents and Publication:

  • He has several patents to his credit and also published several research articles on drug delivery devices.

Speaker and Panellist:

  • He was speaker and panellist on the topics of medical devices for DDCPs in several conferences in India and USA.