Fran is a member of the NGT BioPharma Consultants team and is an expert on our Pediatric Center of Excellence team. He has over 30 years of experience in the pharmaceutical industry, including 21 years at GlaxoSmithKline and 5 years at Incyte Corporation where he led pharmaceutical development teams that successfully commercialized four products and progressed a wide variety of early and mid-stage new chemical entities into clinical studies.
In addition to having a strong background in pediatric formulation, his other research interests include solid state characterization, compaction behavior, particle engineering, and the application of QbD principles to manufacturing process scale-up. Fran has numerous publications, presentations, and patents in these areas.
Fran received both his Bachelor’s Degree in Pharmacy and his Ph.D. in Pharmaceutical Science from the University of Maryland.