Pharmacy Director
Rockefeller University Hospital
Tenafly, New Jersey
Robert is the Pharmacy Director at The Rockefeller University Hospital in New York City. He is also a Lecturer at Columbia University, in the Department of Biostatistics, and consults with developers via Orphan Drug Services, Inc.
For over 35 years Robert has been engaged in commercial drug development and manufacturing, clinical research, and hospital pharmacy practice.
His work experience includes biotech startups, orphan drug startups, large pharma, commercial phase 1 units, GMP drug manufacturers, and academia.
In academia, as a Hospital Pharmacy Director, his work has supported thousands of clinical trials. This includes compounding novel oral and injectable products for first-in-human studies. For multisite trials, he has directed the outsourcing of GMP manufacturing of clinical trial materials, and distributed study medications and supplies to clinics in over 30 countries.
On behalf of sponsors and investigators, Robert has worked with and presented to FDA, EMA, NIH, NCI, NICHD, patient advocacy groups, CROs, CDMOs, and others, always with the objective of moving a promising medication along the critical path. Over this time, he has contributed to the development and GMP manufacturing of hundreds of medicines, leading to multiple drug approvals in the US and Europe.
Wednesday, October 25, 2023
1:30 PM – 2:30 PM ET