Senior Clinical Pharmacology Reviewer
US Food & Drug Administration
Dr. Sonia Pahwa is Senior Clinical Pharmacology reviewer in Division of Infectious Disease Pharmacology in the Office of Clinical Pharmacology (OCP), Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER), FDA. Her primarily role is to review the clinical pharmacology aspects of regulatory submissions and contribute to the benefit/risk assessment of antiviral drugs, COVID-19 drugs and anti-infective drugs. She is the recipient of the several awards including CDER Honor Award, CDER Special Recognition Award, Intercenter Scientific Collaboration Award and Team Excellence Award.
Before joining FDA, she worked as Drug Metabolism and Pharmacokinetics scientist in pharma industry for several years. She received her PhD degree from NIPER, India and did postdoctoral research at College of Pharmacy, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, OK. Her work experience extends from drug discovery to drug development, and finally to regulatory science.