Glenn Lawrence’s first position at Merck & Co. was as a shift engineer for a large factory in Rahway, New Jersey. It was a great learning ground for chemical processing and automation. Glenn was in operations when he was asked to join the engineering department, where he did plant design for active pharmaceutical ingredients and vaccines. He was then asked to take over the engineering...
Laura-Ann Chin has more than 12 years of international and domestic contract and hands-on process engineering experience in the design and construction of current GMP facilities in the US, Europe, and Asia. She specializes in single-use solutions and modular technologies for scale-up, scale-out, and technology transfer in maximizing the performance of advanced therapy medicinal products,...
Although he didn’t know it at the time, Nathan Temple’s service as a naval officer on the USS Asheville in Hawaii prepared him perfectly for a career in pharmaceutical engineering. “You learn so much, so quickly, on a submarine.”
The impact people have on others’ lives is not always obvious. For many, the Advil mini pill might not seem like a big deal, but for people who have trouble swallowing pills, like cancer patients, the tiny pill has made a huge difference in their ability to manage pain. It’s projects like that, as well as treatments for bladder cancer and transthyretin amyloidosis, that Tammy Spain is most...
Lorrie Vuolo-Schuessler has been involved with ISPE and GAMP® projects since 2002. She has authored or co-led 11 ISPE GAMP-focused guidance documents, including ISPE GAMP® 5: A Risk-Based Approach to Compliant GxP Computerized Systems (Second Edition) and the ISPE GAMP® Good Practice Guide: Enabling Innovation - Critical Thinking, Agile, IT Service Management. She is Immediate Past Chair of...
