Jon Tomson, AICP, has joined the ISPE technical advisory team where he will lead the Society's University Relations Task Team initiative to act as liaison officer between the society and major universities in support of the Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Professional of the Future initiative. Tomson is a former chairman of ISPE and recent recipient of the Richard D. Purdy Distinguished Achievement Award.
SAFC, a member of the Sigma-Aldrich Group, has promoted Darren Buckley to operations director at its Manchester facility. Buckley, previously director of strategic accounts in Europe, will manage all operations at the site and be responsible for co-ordinating with all SAFC sites on a global basis.
Mettler Toledo has appointed Charlotte Clarke as its new applications chemist. Clarke, whose role will be to develop methods for customers and offer training courses and product demonstrations in the company's on-site laboratory. She previously worked at Cotts Beverages as a technician and has a Masters and PhD in chemistry.
The board of management at Lanxess has appointed Dr Joerg Straussburger as the new senior Lanxess representative for India and managing director of Lanxess India. Straussburger has been head of the group function corporate development at Lanxess since 1 July 2004, and prior to this was head of strategic planning at Bayer Material Science. His predecessor, Raj Narayanan, is leaving at his own request.
Brecon Pharmaceuticals, a leading pharmaceutical outsource services provider, has appointed Jane Sanderson to the new role of business development manager for its analytical services unit. She joins after 19 years at Cardinal Health, five of which she spent as laboratory operations manager.
Polymer Laboratories, UK, has appointed Dr Don Wellings as technology manager for special projects in the fields of solid phase synthesis and HPLC purification of peptides and oligonucleotides. He was previously technology manager for separation sciences and solid phase organic chemistry at Avecia, UK.
Kate Townsend, a solutions partner with a focus on value-based compliance management at BusinessEdge Solutions, an integrated, industry-focused consulting firm serving the life sciences industry, has recently been appointed as a GAMP 4 instructor for the International Society for Pharmaceutical Engineering (ISPE), making her one of two such instructors in the United States and the fifth instructor worldwide to teach several hundred pharmaceutical professionals yearly about the GAMP 4 approach to the validation of automated systems. GAMP 4 is an acronym for Good Automated Manufacturing Practice.
In this role, Townsend trains pharmaceutical professionals in achieving validated and compliant computer systems that meet current health care regulatory standards, according to Donna Catalini, ISPE's director of training. ISPE is a global not-for profit membership organization that provides education, training and technical publications to more than 20,000 pharmaceutical manufacturing professionals worldwide.