Dr. Sanjay Kulkarni joins PureLine Labs as Head of Manufacturing Sciences
PureLine Labs has appointed Dr. Sanjay Kulkarni as Head of Manufacturing Sciences. Kulkarni was previously Director of Continuous Manufacturing at Cipla.
PureLine Labs today confirmed the appointment of Dr. Sanjay Kulkarni as Head of Manufacturing Sciences, effective 1 August 2026. Kulkarni will report to Chief Operations Officer Anika Desai and be based at PureLine's Hyderabad campus.
Kulkarni joins PureLine from Cipla, where he served as Director of Continuous Manufacturing for the past four years and led the company's move to continuous direct-compression for two commercial OSD products. Earlier in his career he held technical roles at Sun Pharma and Dr. Reddy's Laboratories.
"PureLine's ambition to build a Quality 4.0 analytics layer across its sites is exactly the kind of programme I've been building toward," said Kulkarni. "I'm looking forward to working alongside a team that clearly gets the value of data-driven manufacturing."