Professor David Doughty

Via his company Hallidex Ltd., Dave provides scientific advice with an industrial perspective, and marketed product information to the Research Center Pharmaceutical Engineering GmbH in Graz, Austria. He also provides graduate and post-graduate training to UK universities on a variety of subjects associated with pharmaceutical product and process design and development.
Dave is employed by pharmaceutical companies as a consultant to advise on the deployment of continuous product manufacturing and associated innovative drug substance isolation strategies.
As a pharmaceutical development director at GSK, Dave had a successful track record spanning thirty-six years. He successfully directed teams to develop, register and commercialise new pharmaceutical products and to devise and implement innovative product manufacturing processes and strategies, e.g. continuous manufacturing and Liquid Dispensing Technology. LDT is a patented process for manufacturing low dose drug products safely and reproducibly. Dave is one of the inventors and an inventor on four other novel formulation and process patents.