Senior Director Of Quality Control, Ology Bioservices (Formerly Nanotherapeutics)
Ology Bioservices, Inc.
As Senior Director of Quality Control (QC) for Ology Bioservices, Advanced Development & Manufacturing facility (Ology ADM) located in Alachua FL I am responsible for operation of all QC laboratories to include Analytical Chemistry, Cell Assay, Microbiology, BSL-3 and Bioanalytical. I am responsible for quality of all products released under cGMP, GLP and other relevant regulatory criteria. The products manufactured at Ology ADM are principally medical countermeasures (MCM) products against both chemical and biological warfare threat agents. Theses MCMs include various recombinant monoclonal antibodies, recombinant protein therapeutics as well as vaccines. Vaccines include recombinant, viral and bacterial based attenuated vaccines. Manufacture and testing of products produced at Ology Bioservices range from BSL-1, to BSL-3 agents with development, manufacturing and testing performed under the appropriate levels of containment. Testing of recombinant proteins, commonly monoclonal antibodies include complex analysis for release, stability and in-process testing to include UV, FTIR spectroscopy, HPLC, high resolution UPLC for intact and peptide mapping as well as CE, WES, conventional ELISA, ECL-ELISA, SPR by Octet, FACS, cell based bioassays and RT-PCR. All product testing is conducted under cGMP with sample and data management supported by LabVantage LIMS enterprise software. Bioanalytical analysis for ADA and PK analysis of monoclonal antibody products is also performed at Ology under GLP criteria. Environmental monitoring (EM) of the Ology-ADM facility is the responsibility of QC Microbiology group. All EM activities are conducted under relevant cGMP and ISO standards to ensure all controlled areas in development, manufacturing, cell and viral banking suites meet all relevant regulatory standards. All EM activities are managed with the use of MODA enterprise software to ensure schedule compliance and archiving of EM data.