Peter Walters

CRB
Fellow, Advanced Therapies
Peter Walters is the Fellow of Advanced Therapies at CRB, with over 20 years of experience specializing in pharmaceutical process and facility design. He has a deep technical background in designing processes, equipment and spaces for multi-process facilities predicated on maximum flexibility, logistics optimization, and technologies that reduce costs while allowing pipeline expandability and higher-quality therapeutics.



Working in process, equipment and facility design, he has gained a unique purview into aseptic equipment design and use, process scale up, pilot and GMP manufacturing operations. His expertise includes experimental design, process characterization, equipment and process troubleshooting, and manufacturing for clinical Phase 1 through commercial production. He has designed process facilities for monoclonal antibodies, gene therapies, cell therapies, aseptic novel processes, both in stainless steel and single-use. He helped author an NDA, has participated in FDA facility inspections, and is a patent awarded co-inventor of a novel process formulation method.

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