Dr. Sucheta Banerjee Kurundkar joined CDSA as Director Training in 2012 where she continues her work in strengthening the capacity and capability of clinical development in India. She has ~25 years of experience in research and the CRO Industry. She is involved in training, quality assurance (pre-clinical research, clinical research, medical laboratories, testing, and calibration laboratories) & regulatory affairs. She is a GLP Trainer (WHO); GCP & GCLP Trainer; Auditor for NABL (ISO 15189, ISO 17025), ISO 9001:2015, and NABH standards. Sucheta is NABL Technical Assessor (ISO 17025) and NABH Assessor (Ethics Committee under clinical trial accreditation program) & SIDCER (WHO) Survey, Trainee. She is a Visiting Faculty to the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) – National Institute of Training for Standardization and Myqualityteam where she trains and nurtures ignited minds towards various quality initiatives like benchmarking, certifications, accreditation, and GxPs. Sucheta obtained her Ph.D. in Biochemistry from the University of Pune. Her doctoral work on a novel inhibitor received recognition at the World Congress on Insulin Resistance Diabetes & Cardiovascular Research, USA (2010). She is the recipient of the CSIR International Travel Award. She has an MBA with a specialization in Total Quality Management from Sikkim Manipal University. She is an alumnus to IIM, Ahmedabad (IIMA), where she contributed as an International Program Committee member of IIMA (2015-18). An alumnus of the Institute of Secretariat Training and Management (DOPT, GOI), she has steered ~150 training programs with national experts, DBT, DST, CDSCO, ICMR & QCI across 80+ Indian cities covering >14000+ participants, >3000+ institutions at CDSA. She is a reviewer of 12 international journals of repute. Sucheta has worked to initiate e-learning programs on regulations, medical devices, IVDs on SWAYAM portal of HRD with the help of Indian drug regulatory authority, CDSCO. She is working on the design and development of upcoming online courses to facilitate e-learning programs for CDSA, WHO. She is an Advisory Group Member to WHO-ICMR-NIE e-course for Indian Ethics Committees (e4IEC). She was involved in India’s first Comprehensive National Nutrition Survey by UNICEF as a Team Leader for monitoring of biological samples at CDSA (2016-18). Sucheta is involved in the revision of GCP guidelines and is the Vice-Chairperson of the technical committee for the GCP Personal Certification Scheme (first in global). She is presently engaged with National Medicines Regulatory Authority, Sri Lanka and NABL, International for Laboratory quality management and lab accreditation respectively. Sucheta is attached to the Bioassay Laboratory, THSTI. Her passion resides in quality and training, both she believes are important in the journey for continual improvement.