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Currently Solid Form Solutions Ltd employs fourteen staff and hope to increase this by a further two in the near future to support an increasing number of projects.
At the forefront of this expansion, Solid Form Solutions’ business development section is headed up by Julie Scott. Julie, a founding member of the company, spent over 15 years in the financial sector working as a Bank Manager for HBOS where she specialised in sales and marketing. Her unique approach has proved invaluable to the company and has been a catalyst to SFS’s early success. Over the past 18 months, the Business Development section have grown SFS’s client base at a remarkable rate and have contributed to retaining a large proportion of these clients for six months or more. Solid Form Solutions aim to expand their business development section in the coming months with personnel based in the US and mainland Europe.
The technical team is headed by Dr Stephen Watt. Having gained a PhD in materials science from Heriot-Watt University, Stephen moved on to take up a post-doctoral position under Professor William Jones at the prestigious Pfizer Institute for Pharmaceutical Materials Science, Cambridge University where he published a number of papers. Dr Watt then moved onto a CRO in Cambridge before moving to the Solid Form Sciences Group at GSK. Prior to heading up the technical team at SFS, Stephen has also held leading roles within other CRO’s.
In addition to Dr Stephen Watt, the technical team is comprised of a mixture of experienced and young up-and-coming solid form scientists. Furthermore, to continually improve their capabilities, SFS sponsor a student from Heriot-Watt university who is investigating the use of co-crystals in drug development. SFS and also have a number of internal research projects going on in house.
The Solid Form Solutions’ Quality Assurance section is headed up by John MacKinlay. John has over 15 years experience in QC and QA roles and has been involved in the delivery of quality systems and controls within large scale chemical manufacturing and pharmaceutical industries, clinical laboratories, and most recently, biological, cell culture and vaccine production. As well as having an extensive knowledge of cGMP, GLP, ISO, FDA & ICH regulations, John is well used to dealing with a global client base and has had extensive interactions with many regulatory bodies. Having such highly qualified QA personnel at Solid Form Solutions, is key and ensures that quality is at the forefront of SFS’s current and future operations.
