Light Pharma is a consulting and technology company on a mission to help transform the way medicine is made. Our Focus is on life sciences and healthcare.
Light Pharma and its key personnel have played an active and pioneering role in helping prepare the pharmaceutical and biotech industry for the 21st Century. Research done by Dr. G. K. Raju and others as part of the MIT Program of the Pharmaceutical Industry at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology provided key insights and justification for the launch of the FDA’s 21st Century Quality Initiative. Light Pharma has performed Quality Management Maturity assessments across industry and government organizations over the last two decades. Light Pharma has had its own operations assessed for quality maturity and is one of the earlier small organizations in the world to be assessed at the highest possible level of Maturity Level 5. It has again been assessed to be at this highest possible level of Maturity Level 5 multiple times including mostly recently in August 2024. Light Pharma believes in practicing what it preaches and seeks to be the change it wants to see in the world. We are transforming the way medicine is made (including ourselves)..
G.K. is the Founder, Chairman of Light Pharma Inc.
He is passionate and has made it his personal mission to help transform the way medicine is made.
G.K. received his MS in Chemical Engineering Practice from the MIT Department of Chemical Engineering in 1989, his M.S. in Business Management from the MIT Sloan School of Management in 1994, and his Ph.D. from the MIT Department of Chemical Engineering in 1998.
G.K. has been Executive Director for Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Initiatives at the Center for Biomedical Innovation (CBI) at MIT. He has also been Executive Director of the Consortium for The Advancement of Manufacturing of Pharmaceuticals (CAMP) and Adjunct Professor at the Department of Industrial and Physical Pharmacy at Purdue University.
Robert T. Haslam Professor of Chemical Engineering
Co-Director - MIT Program on the Pharmaceutical Industry
Director, Deshpande Center for Technological Innovation
Department of Chemical Engineering,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, MA 02139
Expertise: Biotechnology, Pharmaceutical Manufacturing, Innovation
Vice-Chairman and Chief Executive Officer,
Ramco Systems
Crossroads Corporate Center,
3150 Brunswick Pike, Suite 100
Lawrenceville, NJ 08648
Expertise: Innovation, Co-Creation
Charles B. Jordan Professor of Medicinal Chemistry
Department of Industrial and Physical Pharmacy,
Purdue University
West Lafayette, IN 47907-1336
Expertise: Solid State Chemistry of Drugs, NMR Spectroscopy, X-ray Crystallography
Our mission - "To Transform The Way Medicine Is Made". We do this together with life sciences and healthcare organizations.
Light Pharma is about energy, transformation, and basic fundamentals.
The Greek word pyramid means "fire in the middle." It means House of Nature or House of Energy. One of the purposes of the Great Pyramid was to generate, transform, and transmit energy. In doing so, it gives us a unique chance to launch radical changes in our views on the nature of things and advance the frontier of thorough knowledge. Hence the Pyramid in the Light Pharma logo.
Since then, the company has provided light and energy to help transform the way medicine is being made at leading life sciences and healthcare organizations.
Light Pharma is about light. The noun "light" implies many things such as illumination, shining, brilliance, glow, brightness, beam, ray, shaft of light, shining star, daylight, sunshine, sunrise, enlightenment, awareness, insight, understanding, luminary, model, exemplar, example, guide and bring to light. The adjective "light" can mean unheavy, weightless, simple, easy, pleasing, nimble, supple, agile, cheerful, and optimistic.
We achieve our mission through our people. We are interested in people with integrity, intellectual ability, and ability to lead.
Our work is challenging. It is about making a difference, bringing out the best from within you and being part of a highly driven and successful team. We recruit students from leading universities and experienced professionals with the skills and drive we are looking for.
Appraised at Maturity Level 5 - CMMI V3.0 model for Services and Development.
Certified Information Security Management System standard: ISO 27001:2013 for consulting, design, development and testing of software systems
Certified Quality Management System standard:
ISO 9001:2015 for consulting, design, development and testing of software systems