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Better Pharma Processes provides process chemistry consulting and training

Peter Harrington

About Better Pharma Processes

Dr. Harrington is a pharmaceutical process design and development expert. He has twenty years of timely process innovation for major pharmaceuticals including:

  • naproxen (Naprosyn®/Aleve®)
  • ticlopidine (Ticlid®)
  • ketorolac (Toradol®)
  • orlistat (Xenical®/Alli®)
  • nelfinavir mesylate (Viracept®)
  • bosentan (Tracleer®), acyclovir
  • carvedilol (Coreg®)
  • oseltamivir phosphate (Tamiflu®)

His specialization is in route selection, process demonstration on scales from 100 mg to 100 kg, evaluation and redesign of discovery chemistry processes to produce kg quantities for clinical trials, and evaluation and redesign of manufacturing processes to lower the cost of goods.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

2011- UNIVERSITY OF DENVER, Denver, CO

Lecturer in Organic Chemistry/Instructor for the Organic Chemistry Laboratories
2010- BETTER PHARMA PROCESSES, LLC
Consultant, Process Chemistry

ROCHE COLORADO CORPORATION
And SYNTEX TECHNOLOGY CENTER, Boulder, CO
1999-2007 Research Fellow
1997-1999 Distinguished Scientist
1990-1996 Principal Research Chemist
1988-1989 Process Research Chemist

SUNY at BINGHAMTON, Binghamton, NY
1984-1987 Assistant Professor of Chemistry

FRONT RANGE COMMUNITY COLLEGE, Westminster, CO
1995-1996 Instructor in General Chemistry
2009- Instructor in Organic Chemistry

HALCON CORPORATION, Montvale, NJ
1981-1982 Research Chemist

 

EDUCATION

  COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY, Fort Collins, CO
1982-1984 Postdoctoral Research with Professor L. S. Hegedus

PRINCETON UNIVERSITY, Princeton, NJ
1976-1982  M.A. and Ph.D. in Chemistry with Professor E. C. Taylor

CANISIUS COLLEGE, Buffalo, NY
1972-1976 B.S. in Chemistry, summa cum laude