Saibal Singh, Ph.D.

Scientific Advisor (Non-Legal)

Madison, NJ
One Giralda Farms
Madison, NJ 07940
P 973.966.3240 F 973.966.3250
P 973.966.3240 F 973.966.3250

Experience

Saibal is a Scientific Advisor in the firm’s Hatch-Waxman Group, and specializes in assisting attorneys with scientific issues concerning validity, infringement, and patentability in the areas of pharmaceutical science and chemistry. He is also involved in opinion work and review of discovery documents during patent litigation.

Prior to joining Windels Marx, Dr. Singh was a Senior Scientist I at Frontage Laboratories. In that capacity, he performed LC (HPLC and LCMS), GC, and ICP method developments following USP guidelines to identify and quantify impurities present in drug products; characterized unknown organic impurities in drug products using synthetic and analytical techniques; and prepared technical and project reports.

Prior to that, he was a Visiting Student Researcher at GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) Chemical Development Unit; a Research Assistant at Temple University; a Research Assistant at the Indian Institute of Technology (Chennai, India); and a Summer Research Fellow at the Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (Bengaluru, India).

Recognition

  • Dissertation Completion Grant, Graduate Fellowship Board of Temple University (December 2022)
  • Graduate Student Support Award, Temple University (August 2018 - December 2022)
  • Daniel Swern Research Award for Outstanding Research, Temple University (November 2022)
  • INSPIRE Scholarship, Department of Science & Technology, India (July 2013 - May 2018)
  • Summer Research Fellowship, Department of Science & Technology, India (May 2017 – July 2017)
  • Council for Scientific & Industrial Research (CSIR) Fellowship, Council for Scientific & Industrial Research, India (April 2017)

Presentations

  • Poster Presentation, Philadelphia Inorganic Colloquium (April 2023)
  • Poster Presentation, ACS MARM (Middle Atlantic Regional Meeting) (June 2022)
  • Poster Presentation, Philadelphia Organic Chemists’ Club (April 2022)
  • Virtual Presentation, Philadelphia Inorganic Colloquium (April 2020)
  • Virtual Presentation, ACS Spring (March 2020)
  • Poster Presentation, Philadelphia Inorganic Colloquium (November 2019, May 2019)

Publications

  • Efforts Towards Control of Regioselectivity in the Gold(I) Catalyzed Hydration of Internal Alkynes. Effects of Solvent, Temperature, and Substrate on Regioselectivity. Saibal Singh, Graham Dobereiner. Adv. Synth. Catal. (2022).
  • Radical Cascade Reaction of Aryl Alkynoates at Room Temperature: Synthesis of Fully Substituted α, β-unsaturated Acids with Chalcogen Functionality. Harekrishna Sahoo, Saibal Singh, and Mahiuddin Baidya. Organic Letters (2018).

 

Practices

Education

  • Ph.D., Organometallic Chemistry, Temple University, 2023
  • M.S., Organic Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology (Chennai, India), 2018
  • B.S., Chemistry, St. Xavier's College (Kolkata, India), 2016