Patricia Truter

Current

• Owner and consultant formulations, drug delivery, biotechnology at AvantGarde Coatings

Past

• Director Drug delivery and Biomaterials at Angiotech Pharmaceuticals
• Manager at CSIR
• Programme manager at CSIR

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Education

• University of the Witwatersrand
• Stellenbosch University/Universiteit Stellenbosch
• University of Pretoria/Universiteit van Pretoria

• University of Pretoria/Universiteit van Pretoria

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Connections

185 connections

Industry

Biotechnology

Websites

• My Company

Patricia Truter’s Summary

A versatile, manager and consultant with >15 years of drug delivery and product development experience from idea, preclinical development to clinical trials and commercialization. Strengths include the ability to build effective teams by identifying and acquiring skills needed and motivating technical experts to address corporate strategy by the development of scalable intellectual property while addressing the FDA requirements for approval.

A passionate team player, able to keep abreast of technical challenges within the biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries with a hands on approach and the unique ability to tighten development timelines by identifying go/no go decisions within a very short time frame. Able to translate corporate objectives into manageable individual goals and motivate a team to become sensitive and aggressive towards tight deadlines and schedules.

I also have access to drug delivery technologies available for licencing opportunities:
- Controlled release products for pharmaceutical active agents (US 6,221,399)
- Artificial Skin: Hydrogel compositions and methods of making it (US 5,972,375)
- A quick release drug delivery system for pharmaceutical applications (US 6,416,787)

Patricia Truter’s Specialties:

Product development, material science, Drug delivery sytems, Polymers, medical devices, coatings, R&D, IND peparation, clinical trials, GMP, ISO 9001, pre clinical, outsourcing, formulation, sale up, manufacturing

Patricia Truter’s Experience

• Owner and consultant formulations, drug delivery, biotechnology

  AvantGarde Coatings

  (Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Marketing and Advertising industry)

  February 1990 — Present (19 years 10 months)

  • Consultancy:
  o Technical and business issues related to materials, NCE, formulations and drug delivery
  o Due diligence and evaluation of products and materials
  o Market and technical information regarding medical devices, materials, bio degradable materials, drug delivery system
  o Scale up and manufacturing of drug delivery systems
  o Clinical trial manufacturing
  o Pre clinical development and development plans
  • Founder, CEO of AvantGarde Coatings (4 people). Company specializing in specialized coatings. Started the company by addressing key issues affecting a successful business by focusing on: time to market, providing unique offerings, new product development, customer satisfaction all within tight financial budgets and deliver the products on time. Hands on experience with regards to business related issues.

• Director Drug delivery and Biomaterials

  Angiotech Pharmaceuticals

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Biotechnology industry)

  August 2005 — 2006 (1 year )

  Responsible for the preclinical development of the drug delivery activities within the R&D group, managing a group of 14 people (scientists and materials engineers and associates).
  
  • Increased the company’s ability to develop novel formulations with no new chemical entities and dramatically reduced the existing development process (4 – 10 years per product), by bringing in technical experts and building a team in the formulations group that had the technical ability and relevant industry experience to address these technical challenges. This resulted in the ability to drastically shorten the development time for products from the idea phase, through the pre clinical phases to clinical to 12 – 18 months in the relevant focus areas.

• Manager

  CSIR

  (Plastics industry)

  1990 — 2005 (15 years )

• Programme manager

  CSIR

  (Research industry)

  January 1987 — August 2005 (18 years 8 months)

  • Reporting to the Director of the Manufacturing and Materials operating unit, was responsible for managing resources, and developing and implementing a strategy for the center to ensure a sustainable income and a pipeline of products from the development of intellectual property by providing the strategic and technical leadership for a group of 25 technical experts, and managing the project managers, personnel and resources.
  • Increased revenue to CSIR by the development of a patented oral controlled drug delivery system for Diclofenac and Verapamil, taking it from bench top to clinical trials to scale up in collaboration with a pharmaceutical company.
  • Ensured the financial sustainability for the group
  • Increased a group’s profitability by 20% within one year by restructuring the group and its activities to generate relevant intellectual property that could be commercialized.

Patricia Truter’s Education

• University of the Witwatersrand

  PhD , Biomaterials, Science , 1999 — 2001

• Stellenbosch University/Universiteit Stellenbosch

  MSc , 1988 — 1990

• University of Pretoria/Universiteit van Pretoria

  BSc , Physiology, chemistry , 1982 — 1987

• University of Pretoria/Universiteit van Pretoria

  Grade 12 , Maths, Science, Accounting, Biology , 1977 — 1981

Additional Information

Patricia Truter’s Websites:

• My Company

Patricia Truter’s Interests:

Flying (aviation), adventure, reading, travelling the world, technology, science

Patricia Truter’s Groups:

Member of the Chamber of Commerce, Canada
• American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists
• International Controlled Release Society
• Society for Biomaterials
• International Microencapsulation Society
• Society for Canadian Women in Science and Technology (SCWIST)
• Member of Toastmaster International (Vice President: PRO – SA) (1994 – 1996)

•    Executive Suite
•    Medical Device Networkers
•    LifeScience Ph.D./MBA Society
•    Vaccines Development Forum
•    Biotech & Pharma Professionals Network
•    Biotechnologists
•    San Diego Biotechnology Discussion Group
•    Biotech BI
•    IFP Consultants
•    Linkin Bio Pharma Professionals
•    Biotechnology and its applications
•    BioSpace Biotechnology and Pharmaceutical Professionals group
•    Pharmaceutical Technology & Development Professionals
•    Formulation Development Scientists
•    Formulation Science and Technology Group
•    Society for Biomaterials
•    Custom Manufacturing & Sourcing of Chemicals/Biomaterials
•    BIOMATERIAL NETWORK
•    FAB - Formulations, Analytics, Bioanalytics
•    The Chemistry Corner - Leaders
•    Green Pharma
•    Advanced Cavitation Institute for Alternative Energy, Nanotechnology...
•    Controlled Release Society

Patricia Truter’s Honors:

• CSIR President’s gold medal for excellent performance 1994 and 1998
• Division of Manufacturing and Materials’ achievement award for Business Excellence (2004)
• Division of Manufacturing and Materials’ achievement award for best manager in Quality (2003)
022; Centre for Polymer Technology a finalist for an international award in the 2004 World Technology Network (Corporate) in the category of materials science (2003)
• South African Bureau of Standards’ design institute award in 2004 for I-slices in the prototype category (2004)
• Artificial skin was filmed by Beyond 2000 (Australian Company) and televised world wide (1995)

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