Speaker Group: Speaker MP

James Hart is the Technical Services manager for the Pharma Solutions group at BASF, James has worked at BASF for 8 years supporting customers, across the UK and Ireland, with their application of BASFs wide range of excipients and is the first point of contact for any questions. James has nearly 20 years of experience… Read more »

Stuart has a decade of pharmaceutical industry expertise at GSK, in both operational and supply chain roles. Currently he leads one of GSK’s largest value streams at the Ware manufacturing facility in Hertfordshire, producing the innovative Ellipta platform of medicines. Stuart joined GSK following a successful career as a commissioned Army Officer, including operational tours… Read more »

After a PhD (Bayreuth, Germany) and Postdoc (Strasbourg, France) researching magnetic and/or fluorescent molecular switches for bio-medical applications, Charles joined the Translational Healthcare Technologies Group at the University of Edinburgh in 2020 as GMP Chemist, and since 2023 is the Translational Chemistry Manager. His role includes the synthetic process development, formulation, GMP manufacture, development/validation of… Read more »

Board-level executive with 16 years’ employment at the UK MHRA and, latterly, with accountability for regulatory activities across the UK supply chain, including Inspectorate (all GxPs), enforcement, licensing, clinical trials, pharmacopoeia and premarket medical devices Expert at crisis management, dealing with national- and international-scale incident management; executive lead for the MHRA’s task force in response… Read more »

With over 15 years in the pharmaceutical sector, I’ve developed my expertise in managing manufacturing and technical teams, ensuring compliance with Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP). My roles have involved overseeing the commercialization of drug products and designing automation infrastructure. Currently, as Manager of Operational Technology at the Medicine Manufacturing Innovation Centre, I focus on compliance… Read more »

Clarinda Costa Sequeira is a postdoctoral researcher in the Padrela research group, at the SSPC, Bernal Institute, University of Limerick, Ireland. Currently, Clarinda is working on the Controlled Nucleation for the Continuous Crystallization of Nanopharmaceuticals project funded by SFI (Science Foundation Ireland). Clarinda obtained her European PhD in Sustainable Chemistry from NOVA University of Lisbon,… Read more »

Mushfiq Akanda is Senior Associate Pharmaceutical Development Scientist in Jazz Pharma where his research focuses on the development of novel drug products and processing of water insoluble drugs. He graduated from the University of Greenwich where he worked on the “Development of Solid Lipid Nanoparticles for cancer treatment”.  Later he worked as Research Associate in… Read more »

Dr Steven Ross is a Senior formulation scientist at southern UK based CDMO Custom Pharma Services, where he conducts research into crystallization screening techniques and continuous manufacturing processes for the development of multi-component crystalline drugs. He was born in Ashford, Kent and attended the University of Greenwich where he obtained his BSc in Biomedical Science,… Read more »