Joanna joins Penman as a Scientific Services Officer with 21 years industry experience working in the pharmaceutical, agrochemical and chemical safety sector at Sequani Limited, a non-clinical contract research organization.
Joanna has a MSc in Chemical Technology and worked for over 20 years in the analytical chemistry section as a Senior Scientist/ Study Director undertaking method development, optimisation, transfer, validation, and stability studies to support dosing formulations in related in-vitro and in-vivo toxicology studies. She also acted as the Principal Investigator for formulation analysis phases from multi-site studies. In the latter year at Sequani, she joined the Business Development team as a Programme Manager where she was responsible for several large key clients, her main responsibilities including preparation of formal proposals whilst ensuring that specific regulatory requirements are met; monitoring, management, and timely delivery of all programme elements (internal and at third party facilities), assisting with programme specific contracts and maintaining Sequani’s scheduling tool.