Andy Baxter

Biography

Andy has been successfully involved in both in-licensing and out-licensing projects and has managed collaborations between biotech and major pharmaceutical companies on a multidisciplinary level.In a career spanning 25 years, Andy has held senior technical and management positions in major pharmaceutical companies, emerging biotech companies and, most recently, small virtual pharmaceutical companies. Companies include Pfizer, Chiroscience-Celltech, Arakis, and Serentis. Andy has in-depth experience of the drug discovery process leading programmes through lead generation, lead optimisation, and candidate selection. Andy has a broad understanding of most therapeutic areas and has experience of many therapeutic targets. He is an inventor or co-inventor of over 60 patent applications. In addition, Andy has many years of experience managing development programmes and has a broad technical and quality understanding of pre-clinical, chemistry, manufacture and controls (CMC), regulatory and early clinical operations. He has developed products as solid dose forms (including modified release), parental, topical, inhaled, intra-nasal, sub-lingual and transdermal patches.

Research Interest

Quality Control, Pre-clinical, Chemistry