Serena Schiano works as Associate Director, CMC at KalVista, managing drug development from early stage to clinical trials, filing and commercialisation. She holds a Marie Curie PhD in Chemical and Process Engineering focused on material characterisation and process optimisation for solid dosage form from the University of Surrey in UK. During her studies she published several papers, presented to more than 10 international conferences worldwide and collaborated with numerous companies in UK, Europe and China.

With more than a decade of experience Dr. Schiano development more than 20 drug products delivered for clinical trials worldwide. Serena has extensive expertise in formulation development, process optimisation and scale up and gained experience not onlK from the prospective of the sponsor but also worked in the CDMO space as part of Patheon Thermo Fisher Scientific, where she led the formulation development of products for several markets including UK and Europe.

Serena also has experience from a business perspective due to her Manager role in Gamlen Tableting where she supported the business development team as SME in compaction and formulation optimisation during the early stage of her career.

Presentation Title: Optimising the Outsourcing of a Oral Solid Dosage Form Programme – a Biotech Perspective.

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