Christopher Phillips Email & Phone Number

Newcastle Emlyn, West Wales

Sitting between the R&D and Manufacturing departments, the main function of the Technology Transfer manager is to ensure the suitability of new equipment or processes and co-ordinate their scale-up, validation and implementation into manufacturing. Duties and responsibilities include: Supporting the design and development of processes intended to be transferred for commercial manufacturing activities.Ensuring that equipment, products or processes to be transferred have the proven and documented ability to achieve the required quality specifications.Coordinating with external organisations to transfer equipment, product and/or process knowledge between manufacturing sites to achieve product realisation.

Newcastle Emlyn, West Wales

Having been awarded a scholarship from the Knowledge Economy Skills Scholarship (KESS) and working closely with Cardiff Metropolitan University, the title of the thesis was 'Production and Assessment of Ovine Polyclonal Antibodies to Treat Clostridium difficile Infection'.

Newcastle Emlyn, West Wales

Working for a small bio-pharmaceutical company producing antibody based drug products within an aseptic manufacturing facility and reporting directly to the Chief Operating Officer.Responsible for running the downstream processing of ovine derived immune products (IgG and Fab) using ultra filtration systems, affinity and hydrophobic interaction chromatography and viral filtration.Other duties included:Providing supervisory support to upstream processing, i.e. buffer preparation, serum precipitation and capture of IgG.Providing validation support to qualify new equipment and processes.Assisting with laboratory based assays and process development.

Ffostrasol, Ceredigeon, West Wales

Working for a bio-pharmaceutical company producing antibody based drug products within an aseptic manufacturing facility and reporting directly to the Validation Manager.The broad function of the Senior Validation Officer role was to plan, write and execute validation studies and provide technical support and supervision as necessary.

Ffostrasol, Ceredigeon, West Wales

Working for a bio-pharmaceutical company producing antibody based drug products within an aseptic manufacturing facility and reporting directly to the Production Supervisor, this role included working within the following areas:Buffer Preparation – producing large volumes of buffer solutions for use in the product manufacturing processSerum Preparation – processing raw serum to remove unwanted proteins, recover and concentrate IgG fragmentsChromatography – using ion exchange & affinity chromatography systems to purify & capture specific Fab fragments

Doctor Of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Immunotherapy / Public Health

The Production and Assessment of Ovine Polyclonal Antibodies for the Treatment of Clostridium difficile Infections

Bachelor Of Science (Bsc) Honours, Biomedical Sciences, Upper Second Class (2:1) With Honours