Authors
Yeli Zhang, PhD, is Application and Innovation Technical Service Manager, Roquette.
Bob Sulouff is Sr. Manager Regulatory Affairs, Health & Pharma Solutions, ROQUETTE Americas. Bob has over 25 years’ experience in Regulatory Affairs and Quality, primarily focused on excipients. He is a member of Roquette’s Health and Pharma Solutions Regulatory team, where he advocates for value added pharma regulatory solutions.
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Candy Reynolds Cummings spent 15 years at GlaxoSmithKline starting as an analytical chemist and working up to QA Validation Manager in the OTC area (specifically oral care). Currently working at Evonik as the Regulatory and Product Stewardship Manager supporting the business line Silica for regulations in US, Canada, and Mexico.
Philip Hoersch is Director, Quality Assurance, Process Performance & System Compliance, Vetter.
Jérôme Barra is vice president Global Marketing Taste, HNC at dsm-firmenich.
Radoslaw Kaczanowski is head of Global Project Management at Recipharm.
Dr. Michelle Sestak joined HORIBA in 2012 after earning a PhD in physics from the University of Toledo. She specialized in spectroscopic ellipsometry for cadmium telluride thin-film solar cells. Starting as a thin film applications scientist, she later expanded into Raman spectroscopy and now works as a Raman and thin films applications scientist.
Ken Boda is dissolution product specialist at Agilent Technologies.
Diana Russo has more than 20 years of experience in the pharmaceutical industry. She has built her career in the areas of computer system validation, IT quality, and computer systems quality assurance. And while her current role focuses on data integrity, DI has been an important driving force throughout her entire career. She is an audit trail review subject matter expert, a leader in process improvement, and happily challenges the status quo.
Akanksha Prasad, MS, is a chemical and bioprocess engineer with over nine years of experience in chemical, biologics, and pharmaceutical process development. Her expertise spans mRNA, vaccines, and biologics, with a focus on technology transfer, PAT, scale-up, purification, and regulatory compliance. She holds a Master’s in Chemical Engineering with a biopharma specialization from the Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, and a Bachelor’s in Chemical Engineering from India.
Abdul W. Basit is a professor in the Department of Pharmaceutics, UCL School of Pharmacy, University College London and co-founder of FABRX Ltd.
Aimee Penko is an engineering execution manager for Arcadis.
Joe Compton is senior director, Business Development and Alliance Management, TPU (Tjoapack US).
Robert Dream is managing director of HDR Company and a member of PharmTech’s Editorial Advisory Board.
Gary Ritchie, InfraTrac [email protected], is director of Scientific Affairs at InfraTrac.
Kimberly Salgado is Head of Centre for Biosimilar Drug Development, ICON plc
Adam Goldstein is senior director, R&D, Thermo Fisher Scientific.
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Lucinda Smith is chief safety product officer at ArisGlobal. Prior to joining the company, she spent more than two decades in frontline scientific and strategic PV and drug safety roles at a major pharmaceutical company.
Gail Reed is senior scientist with Johnson & Johnson.