Dr. Prasanta Kumar Ghosh, the President and Founding Member of SBPI is an expert in regulatory affairs of new biotechnology products. He has been instrumental in laying the foundation of Biosafety Guidelines of Genetically Modified products and processes in the country. A Chemical Engineer by education, he has spent more than 33years in the Government. He also received Advanced Post-Graduate Training in Pharmaceutical Technology from the State University of Ghent, Belgium. He has been as Adviser in the Department of Biotechnology (DBT) wherein he handled industrial licensing policy issues in biotechnology; establishment of certain DBT institutions; institutional technology transfers to industry; IPR evolution in biotech products; use of genetically modified substances in India; and issues relating to trans-boundary movement of Living Modified Organisms. His scientific contributions include invention of a novel helical coil heat-exchanger design; production techniques of polymeric hydrophilic nanoparticles by micelle and reverse micelle polymerization methods; novel accelerated coir pith composting technique; development of novel vaccine adjuvants and novel p38 MAPK inhibitor using formulated Mycobacterium w. All his inventions have been used in practice. He is a Fellow of several learned societies. He has more than 90 scientific papers with four US Patents. He has worked for over 15 y in senior positions in several companies, specializing in biotechnology. Presently, he has also his own consultancy company.