Annu Uppal, Ph.D., is currently working as Senior Scientific Affairs Manager at United States Pharmacopeia (USP)-India with a focus on Biologics. In her role, Dr. Uppal collaborates with scientific experts and stakeholders to support USP’s mission of advancing quality medicines in India. Before joining USP, Dr. Uppal was Global Lead and Application support manager for Biopharmaceutical Applications at SCIEX. She is a core mass spectrometric expert with hands-on experience in bioanalytical/analytical method development and biologics/biosimilar characterization. She has varied experience in the analytical characterization of biotherapeutics such as monoclonal antibodies, therapeutic proteins & peptides, metabolites, lipids, biomarker discovery/verification. She has more than 28 research papers and book chapters in peer reviewed journals. She has presented in several national and international conferences as an invited speaker