Christy Eatmon
Sr. Staff Scientist, R&D, Pharma Services
North Carolina, USA
Key roles and responsibilities
- Provides technical support, designs strategies, and supports new business opportunities for sterile manufacturing
- Evaluate potential parenteral programs and determine the best fit in the Thermo Fisher Scientific network
- Liaise with customers to align on project scope, technology and expectations
Professional highlights
- Experience in the pharmaceutical industry spans over fifteen years, with an emphasis on process optimization, product development, manufacturing and sterile filling
- Supported Thermo Fisher Scientific’s Greenville, NC site as senior principal scientist before taking over additional responsibilities as a global subject matter expert
- Developed novel formulations for first-in-human studies for a variety of indicators
- Patent held in development of dispersions of stable nanoparticles for use in delivery of active pharmaceutical ingredients
- Presenter at industry conferences and webinars
Education
- Bachelor’s degree in chemistry from Moravian College in Pennsylvania
Scientific expertise
- Extensive experience in pre-clinical to early phase formulation development of sterile products
- Process engineering expertise to enable technology transfer and scale up of parenteral formulations
- High level knowledge of all phases from drug discovery to commercial manufacturing and commercial launch
- Extensive experience with both small and large molecules, including small molecule formulation for controlled release of poorly water-soluble drugs