ABOUT DRUG DELIVERY LEADER

Drug Delivery Leader presents the people, technologies, processes, and practices involved in advancing drug delivery for optimal therapeutic impact. Our engaged community of thought leaders and stakeholders represents a wide range of drug development roles and responsibilities, from drug formulation to delivery device, system, and platform design. Scientists and engineers alike leverage our content resources and community events to network with experts, exchange ideas, foster partnerships, and source solutions. In doing so, drug delivery professionals gain insights into the biggest challenges and opportunities related to various routes of administration: injectable, oral solid dose, inhalation, infusion, transdermal, and ocular.


AUTHORITY

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Tom von Gunden
Tom von Gunden
Chief Editor & Community Director

As you look to expand your knowledge and network in the drug delivery arena, you will want to seek out our chief editor and community director, Tom von Gunden. Leveraging a wide range of subject matter experts and industry insiders, Tom ensures that Drug Delivery Leader provides you with indispensable resources for staying current on the industry’s most innovative thinking. He also shapes and guides the activities and interactions of contributors and participants within the vibrant online community supported by Drug Delivery Leader.

Formerly the chief editor at Pharmaceutical Online, Tom’s attention to information exchange across the biopharma landscape also includes strategic research he has directed on reader and user needs and preferences. Tom relies on those experiences as he shapes approaches to addressing the community’s information sourcing and sharing on Drug Delivery Leader.

If you have questions or suggestions about information resources or about community events and activities on Drug Delivery Leader, feel free to contact Tom.


Fran DeGrazio
Fran DeGrazio
Fran DeGrazio
Executive Editor

Prominent among the subject matter experts whose insights we share on Drug Delivery Leader is executive editor Fran DeGrazio. With over 35 years of experience in the pharmaceutical packaging and delivery industry, Fran offers extensive expertise in sterile drug product systems. Currently, Fran is also President & Principal Consultant for Strategic Parenteral Solutions LLC., where she advises executives in the biopharma industry on strategy, growth, technical, and regulatory opportunities.

Fran previously held numerous strategic & technical roles at West Pharmaceutical Services, and she frequently applies her industry knowledge as a presenter and published author. Among her technical articles and book contributions is a chapter in The Combination Products Handbook: A Practical Guide for Combination Products and Other Combined Use Systems.

Fran is an active member of the PDA Combination Products steering committee, the ISPE Combination Products COP, the ASTM International Combination Products cGMP working group, and the AFDO/RAPS Combination Products Summit steering committee.

You will benefit from Fran’s keen insights by checking out her article series, Frankly Fran.


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