Richard Liggins
Technology Development Team
Sitka Biopharma
Canada
Biography
With 15 years of industrial drug development experience, Dr. Liggins has expertise in polymeric drug delivery, formulation optimization and scale-up. Dr. Liggins has developed intellectual property in diverse technology areas including formulation composition, processing methods, and therapeutic methods, with over seventy US and international patents and patent applications filed in eleven patent families (two issued). With a background in both drug and device development, Dr. Liggins has contributed to CMC development in clinical IND filings (from pre-clinical research through to GMP manufacture of Phase III materials) as well as supporting device-oriented IDE filings. Dr. Liggins is the technical project champion, overseeing the technical development work and coordinating activities conducted in the CDRD laboratories with those at the collaborator sites (Vancouver Prostate Centre and the University of British Columbia).
Research Interest
Pharmacy
