David Adams
Senior Drug Substance Consultant
Mr. Adams is a perceptive chemist/engineer with over 30 years’ experience problem-solving in pharmaceutical manufacturing and process development with a history of making significant improvements. Experienced with fractional distillation, hydrogenations, catalysis, Grignard reactions, extractions, filtrations, hazardous reagents. Experienced with GMP’s, lean sigma, statistical-process-control, hazard analyses, environmental controls & treatment, DEA, OSHA & FDA regs.
- Managed approximately 6 production campaigns
- Improved operation and provided accountability for $15-million process recovery streams.
- Developed an improved crystallization for 6-ACP reducing processing time 50%.
Before joining DSI, Mr. Adams served has Production Team Leader for Lonza and Senior Process Engineer at Johnson Matthey.
Core Competencies
- Process Chemist
- Fractional Distillation
- Man in Plant
- Contract Manufacturing
- CMO Selection
- Small and Large Molecule
- Combination Products
- Hazard Analyses
- Process Improvement