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.