Velesco expands core scientific and quality team
Appoints director of quality and senior pharmaceutical scientist
Prior to joining Velesco, Smith was quality assurance manager for Richard-Allan Scientific and senior quality assurance manager for Pfizer’s Drug Product and Device Research Group in Kalamazoo, MI.
In conjunction with her role at Velesco, Smith will continue her leadership position at PharmaMed Resources, a quality assurance and regulatory affairs consultancy that services the Medical Device and Pharmaceutical Industries.
Chen has extensive experience in analytical methods development and validation, cleaning verification and validation, and drug release testing.
Before joining Velesco, Chen served in the Pharmaceutical Sciences Division of Pfizer Global R&D as a senior associate scientist for eight years and the Analytical Development Department of Caraco Pharmaceutical Laboratories for two years. Her experience spans the drug development spectrum from early stage development and validation of stability-indicating methods for the release of drug substance and drug product, to later stage projects focused on the detection of residual drugs on manufacturing equipment.