Dr Anthony R. Newcombe was the Purification Lead at Pfizer Biotechnology Ireland. He is currently Senior Manager, Process & Product Validation, Global Industrial Operations, GlaxoSmithKline Biologicals, Belgium. He has extensive experience in the technical and operational leadership of development programs to co-ordinate process transfer, scale-up, laboratory scale pre-qualification (design space) studies and the development of effective process validation strategies for biopharmaceutical production. Anthony is a Visiting Professor at the Biopharmaceutical Bioprocessing Technology Centre (BBTC), Newcastle University, member of the Editorial Board, Journal of Protein Expression & Purification, Member of the Royal Society of Chemistry (MRSC) and Scientific Advisor, Technology Transfer Strategy panel at the Wellcome Trust, UK.
Dr Piranavan Thillaivinayagalingam is an expert in process characterisation (including QbD approach), technology transfer, scale up and the development, coordination and implementation of process validation strategy for manufacture of biopharmaceuticals. Piranavan is currently the purification expert at Novartis Pharma and prior to this was a Senior Scientist at Pfizer Biotechnology Ireland, responsible for the transfer of phase 3 and commercial processes.