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Primary Area of Expertise

Medicinal Chemistry

Expert Witness Profile

Expert witness in all aspects of chemical and pharmaceutical development, including:

• Late lead optimization and discovery activities bridging medicinal chemistry and early development, including:
⚬ Transitioning of multiple lead molecules into early development
⚬ Optimization/discovery of practical synthetic routes
⚬ Process R&D, full chemical and physical characterization (pre-formulation)
⚬ Development of discovery PK/ADME and preclinical formulations

• Strategic, logistical, and technical leadership of entire CMC programs, from preclinical studies through commercialization
• Regulatory CMC support - strategy/pathl, documentation, interactions (written and real time) with global regulatory agencies
• Hatch-Waxman litigation, concerning all of the above subject areas and topics

Education & Licenses

BS, Biochemistry, University of Illinois-Chicago, 1987
PhD, Chemistry (area of concentration - Organic Chemistry, 1992
NIH Post-Doctoral Fellow, University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, La Jolla, CA, 1992-1995