Talal Alzaher

Development Director at Julphar

• United Arab Emirates
• March 2017 to July 2017

Leading and upgrading the research and development department and function
bringing it inline with industrial and international RD facilities.
* Responsible for overall technical and scientific development and management of
all new/current products and technologies (formulation, analytics, Pilot Plant,
scale up, transfer, optimization and validation)
* CE marking for medical devices (insulin pen, medicated batches, delivery
devices).
* All product related activities in RD department to support and enable corporate
expansion vertically and horizontally and to go into new technologies and trends
(five-year portfolio plans, new trends and machinery, skills)
* Setup budgets and financial planning including feasibility and profit/loss (P&L)
sheets making sure it is within overall organization budgets
RD is working closely with all stakeholders at

Development Director

• January 2017 to March 2017

CA at American Diabetes Assocaiation meeting

• United Arab Emirates
• June 2009 to January 2013

Senior Manager at EMA

• Saudi Arabia
• January 2009 to January 2013

Responsible for the setting up and upgrading Biotech portfolio
(insulin/insulin analogs, Erythropoietin, GCSF, growth hormone, MABs)
• Insulin Pilot Plant Team Leader,
• Insulin Regulatory Development Project in line with

Head at Its

• United Arab Emirates
• January 2006 to January 2008

JORDAN VACCINES (Bio industries Centre),

at Gulf Pharmaceutical Industries (Julphar)

• United Arab Emirates
• January 2006 to January 2008

at Hashemeyah University and Petra University

• January 2002 to January 2007

Undergraduate Biotech and Chemical Engineering
- Industrial Biotechnology: The course was tailored for students to give them the full product
development cycle. From molecular biology gene identification, synthesis, cloning, process,
product identification and analysis, scale up strategies and production. This also involved
students with practical lab work in analytics, purification and protein handling skills.
American University of Ras Al-Khaimah 2011-2019
Undergraduate Biotechnology students
- Member of the Syllabus development and accreditation committee for the Biotech B.Sc honors
degree at the university. I helped in shaping up and developing the full plan for this department
due to my experience and also as a local university we had a very close collaboration.
- Pharmaceutical Biotechnology: Aims and giving students and exposing them to the biopharma
developments and the new emerging therapeutic trends. This included skills needed for
pharmacy students to handle and work with such molecules and products
- Quality GMP/GLP: Aims at giving students a feel for work environments in biotech plants and
regulations. Students were trained theoretically in GMP setup and GLP through systematic
series of lectures in collaboration also with industry experts. Student were also trained through
field visits to local biotech companies and plants for practical training and experience visity and
working in analytical labs, formulation labs and production facilities. .
PATENTS:
1. Oral Delivery of protein drugs, EPO, Patent no. EP 1 797 870 A1, Feb. 2005.
I lead this project from the very beginning, and it was on oral insulin delivery
2. Device for the early and rapid immunochromatographic detection of HIV and uses
thereof, EP 1 798 556 A1, Dec. 2005.
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PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS
Reports of Original Work
1. El-Thaher TS, Khatib S, Saleem M, Shnoudeh A, Badwan AA. A novel compound JPM8: in
vivo penile activity promotion in rats, effect on the relaxation and cGMP/cAMP accumulation in

Founder at Aragen Biotech

• January 1996 to January 2006

The Jordanian Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Group, Jordan, Head of
Bioresearch and Biotechnology, Jordan

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• January 1994 to September 2001

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VOLUNTARY TEACHING at University of Science and Technology

• United Arab Emirates
• January 1998 to January 2000

Postgraduate Pharmacy Students:
- Pharmaceutical Biotechnology: Aims and giving students and exposing them to the biopharma
developments and the new emerging therapeutic trends. This included skills needed for
pharmacy students to handle and work with such molecules and products
Undergraduate Biology/Biotechnology and Chemical Engineering Students:
- Industrial Biotechnology: The course was tailored for students to give them the full product
development cycle. From molecular biology gene identification, synthesis, cloning, process,
product identification and analysis, scale up strategies and production. This also involved
students with practical lab work in analytics, purification and protein handling skills.

GM at submandibular gland. Comparison of tonin and tissue kallikrein in their interactions with inhibitors. Int. J Pep

• United Arab Emirates
• January 1993 to February 1993

synthesis of Diadenosine 5', 5'''-p1, p4-tetraphosphate (Ap4A) analogues by stress protein LysU. J.
Chem. Soc., Chem. Commun., 17, 2021.
16. el-Thaher T, Bailey GS. Rapid and convenient purification of tonin

Head

• January 1988 to January 1990

Serono Diagnostics,