July 2019

Dr. Alicia Potuck is no stranger to innovation. On a daily basis, she constantly searches for those creative sparks to incite innovative and out-of-the box thinking to deliver a deeper scientific understanding of drug product development. Jumping in feet first from her graduate work in biomaterials for wound healing, Alicia leveraged her scientific curiosity first in cosmetic semi-solid formulation development at Avon, then pivoted to pharmaceutical semi-solid formulation development at GSK. At her current role in Drug Product Design at GSK, Alicia is challenged to harmonize innovation,...Read more

Anne Osbourn is a microbial and plant biologist. Her research focuses on plant natural products -  biosynthesis, function, and mechanisms of metabolic diversification. An important advance from the Osbourn laboratory has been the discovery that the genes needed to make particular natural products are often organised in clusters in plant genomes like ‘beads on a string’, a finding that has greatly accelerated the discovery of new pathways and chemistries.  Anne has established a synthetic biology platform based on transient plant expression that provides rapid access to previously...Read more

Dr. Sudarshan Nadathur is Chief Global Dairy Flavorist with ADM.  His career of 20 years has been in the Flavor industry, where he has held both regional and international roles supporting research, flavor creation, and developing new business. With a keen interest in health and sustainability, Dr. Nadathur was actively involved with the Institute of Food Technologists (IFT) over the last several years in the sustainability platform.  He has authored articles on dairy and plant protein topics and was a principal editor on “Sustainable Protein Sources” {Elsevier, 2016}. Dr....Read more