Grace Furmana
Toxicologist - San Diego Operations
Pharmaceutical
Phoenix
Canada
Biography
As CEO/President and founder of Paracelsus, Inc., Dr, Grace Furman has been providing professional toxicology services to the pharmaceutical industry as an independent consultant since 2007. Her area of professional expertise relates to regulatory toxicology as applied to development of small molecule therapeutics, including novel agents for cancer and other serious and life-threatening diseases. She has extensive experience in helping her clients develop efficient research programs to enable investigational new drug (IND) applications and champions IND applications to the Food and Drug Administration with precision. From 1999 to 2006, Grace worked in several management and senior roles with Agouron Pharmaceuticals, Inc., that developed into her primary role as Senior Director of Regulatory Safety Assessment within the Drug Safety department of Pfizer’s Global R&D division (La Jolla, CA site). In this position, she led the group which provided the functional interface between the La Jolla Drug Safety and Worldwide Regulatory Affairs departments.
Research Interest
Pharmaceutical Analysis and Quality Assurance Industrial Pharmacy Clinical Pharmacy Pharmaceutical Administration Medicinal Chemistry Drug Discovery and Development
