Dr. Stephen McQuaker has over 10 years of experience across a range of chemical industries including pharmaceuticals, flavor and fragrance, and fast-moving consumer goods. He is experienced in upstream and downstream roles, including process research and development, new technology and formulation development, as well as in pilot plant and commercial-scale manufacturing support functions. He has first-hand experience with drug candidate development programs through non-clinical and early clinical phases, including GMP drug substance manufacturing at a multi-kilogram scale, using both batch processing and continuous flow technologies. Stephen holds a PhD in organic chemistry from the University of Glasgow and has also conducted academic research in the areas of synthetic organic chemistry and chemical biology, at the State University of New York at Stony Brook (NY, USA) and the Buck Institute for Research on Aging (CA, USA).