Philippe De Raeve

Scientific Director at Quality Assistance

Philippe De Raeve is one of the founders of Quality Assistance, a Contract Research Organization offering a wide range of analytical services to Pharmaceutical companies.

For over 30 years, he has been working as Scientific Director, supervising the development and validation of hundreds of analytical methods, using GC, HPLC, UPLC, LC-MS and more recently ICP-MS, including:

- generic methods for elemental impurities determination in API, excipients and drug products according to ICH Q3D

- a fast, accurate and validated method for absolute quantification of proteins without reference substance on basis of Sulfur determination by ICP-MS/MS

- development of an ICP-MS/MS method for the simultaneous determination of Phosphorus and Sulfur allowing accurate quantification of oligonucleotides and P=O/P=S ratio calculation for phosphorothioates.