Derek Lonergan

Director, New Product Integration MS&T at Jazz Pharmaceuticals, Ireland

Speaker

My passion is adding value to patients’ lives by collaborating with teams to deliver high quality, medically essential products. With over 25 years’ experience as a technical subject matter expert and leader, I have delivered a range of products including chromatography resins, monoclonal diagnostics, vaccines, therapeutic proteins, cytotoxic chemotherapeutic agents and monoclonal therapeutics. My primary area of expertise is bioprocessing, with specific experience in facility start-ups / NPIs in-house and through CDMOs. For the last 8 years I have been providing technical leadership in a virtual manufacturing company gaining a wealth of experience of when operating in the CDMO environment.