Alawi Jifri

My role as an analytical chemist in the Analytical method department consists of method development, validation and transfer. These processes are the key elements of any pharmaceutical development program.
Changes encountered during drug development may require modifications to existing analytic methods. These modifications to the methods, in turn, may require additional validation or transfer activities. Analytical methods are intended to establish the identity, purity, physical characteristics and potency of the drugs that we use. Methods are developed to support drug testing against specifications during manufacturing and quality release operations, as well as during long-term stability studies. Methods may also support safety and characterization studies or evaluations of drug performance. Other roles of my job consists of training pharmacy and chemistry students in our R&D department and also a coordinator for student visits to the R&D department.