Speaker Group: Speaker MP 25

After a career in pharmaceutical process development and as a parallel import regulatory affairs manager, David joined the Medicines and Healthcare Products Agency (MHRA) as manager of the Parallel Import Unit. During his 15 years with MHRA David introduced many process improvements to reduce assessment times and was responsible for all changes to the parallel… Read more »

Rodrigo Arias holds a degree on industrial and process engineering, a master’s in international business and diplomas on pharmaceutical production processes, high speed tableting, and international logistics. He worked at Novartis manufacturing site in the engineering projects and maintenance department. At DFE Pharma, since 2010, he has had several responsibilities in Latin America and EMEA regions,… Read more »

Driton’s interests centre around understanding and overcoming the biological barriers to improve drug delivery, with a key focus on oral biotherapeutics. He has specific interests in nanomedicines and exosomes, that potentially enable injection-free delivery. He is also interested in drug delivery for diseases of, or linked to, the gut. Driton is also interested in improved… Read more »

Alan Smith is a Professor of Biopolymer Science in the Department of Pharmacy at the University of Huddersfield. Prior to this he held research positions in the School of Pharmacy at Aston University, The School of Dentistry and The School of Chemical Engineering at the University of Birmingham and at the Ferrier Research Institute, Wellington,… Read more »