Senior Advisor
Pfizer Inc.
Westerly, Rhode Island
Bruno C. Hancock currently leads the global pharmaceutical materials science group at Pfizer Inc. He holds a BPharm from the University of Bath, UK and a Ph.D. in Pharmaceutical Technology from the University of Bradford, UK. He held a post-doctoral research appointment at the University of Wisconsin and worked at ICI Pharmaceuticals (now Astra Zeneca) and Merck Frosst & Co. before joining Pfizer. At Pfizer he has worked in the areas of formulation development (focused on spray dried dispersions), powder technology, pharmaceutical materials science, drug product process development & technology transfer, and computational drug product design. Bruno has published over one-hundred-and-thirty full research papers and several patents. He has served as an advisor to the United States Pharmacopoeia on the use and testing of pharmaceutical materials since 1995, and was the recipient of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain Science Medal in 2000 for his contributions to pharmaceutical research. He was elected to Fellow status in the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists in 2004. He has been an Editor for the Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences since 2014 and he currently serves as a co-editor for the Handbook of Pharmaceutical Excipients.
Tuesday, October 24, 2023
1:30 PM – 2:30 PM ET