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Complex Medicines

Enabling the next wave of novel therapeutic modalities

Seda’s complex medicines specialists have expertise in the design, development, and regulatory authorisation of a range of complex products incorporating complex active pharmaceutical/biological ingredients, complex drug delivery systems and complex manufacturing processes.

“Complex medicines are drugs characterised by advanced formulations, delivery systems, or mechanism that present challenges in development, manufacturing and achieving regulatory approval. These may include large molecules (peptides/proteins, mAbs, nucleic acids), nanoparticulate systems and therapies requiring targeted delivery or controlled release.”

A non-exhaustive list of technologies within the scope of Seda’s offering is provided below:

  • Conjugates (dendrimer, antibody, polymer-drug conjugates)
  • Monoclonal antibodies
  • Nucleic acid-based therapeutics (mRNA, antisense oligonucleotides, siRNA)
  • Long acting injectables (depots, microspheres, hydrogels)
  • Nanoparticles (liposomes, lipid nanoparticles, polymeric nanoparticles, inorganic, micelles, self-assembled systems and complexes)
  • Peptide and protein complexes

What can Seda offer:

Complex medicines support can be via consultancy, laboratory, or modelling input (or any combination thereof). Take a more detailed look at our multi-faceted service offering:

Why choose Seda?

Seda’s Complex Medicines experts specialise in navigating the complexities of drug development, leveraging cutting-edge technologies and expertise to overcome the challenges unique to complex medicines. With a track record of success and a commitment to excellence, we provide tailored, technology agnostic solutions to ensure the efficient and effective development of advanced therapeutics.

Due to the intimate link between formulation properties and in vivo performance (safety and efficacy) for complex parenterals, we believe our in-house modelling, DMPK and clinical pharmacology capability significantly enhances the value of our consultancy and laboratory offerings in the complex medicines space.

Externally, we have established a network of experts in the diverse array of advanced physicochemical characterisation techniques that are so vital to success in this field. Together with close alliances to other non-clinical and clinical experts, we are ideally placed for ensuring the seamless communication required to maximise success of complex medicines, where minor changes in formulation or manufacturing process can have a major impact on performance.

Seda have no affiliations to technology platforms so Clients can be assured that all technical recommendations are always made in line with the most effective solutions.

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  • Analytical Sciences
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  • CMC Regulatory
  • Complex Medicines

Effi Baetzner

PhD

Director, Quality Control

Effi Baetzner

PhD

Director, Quality Control

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Effi is a dedicated QC Director at Seda, she is a Principal Scientist and Leader within the pharmaceutical industry. Joining Seda with Line Management responsibilities, she immersed herself in Pharmaceutical Development, gaining valuable insights into the nuanced needs of our clients. In her prior role at a distinguished GxP-accredited CRO, Effi emerged as a leader in analytical testing, specializing in Oligonucleotides and RNA for both commercial and developmental Drug Substance and Product. Drawing on her background as a studied organic chemist, she possesses a wealth of knowledge in small molecules and their comprehensive analysis, cultivated over years of focused expertise. Effi’s multifaceted experience uniquely positions her to understand and address the diverse needs of Seda. As she journeyed from an R&D environment during her studies and PhD to a GxP environment, the understanding and implementation of good quality control processes increased throughout her career and brought her to this exciting opportunity

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    Expertise:

    • Oral Drug Delivery
    • Complex Medicines
    • Paediatric Product Development
    • CMC Regulatory
    • Analytical Sciences

    Marcel de Matas

    BSc (Hons) PhD FRSC CChem

    Chief Technology Officer & Co-Founder

    Marcel de Matas

    BSc (Hons) PhD FRSC CChem

    Chief Technology Officer & Co-Founder

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    Marcel has a track record in a range of management and senior scientific positions in industry and academia. Most recently he was a Principal Scientist in Product Design and Innovation at AstraZeneca, where he was responsible for introducing the latest science, new technologies (advanced drug delivery and manufacturing) and product design thinking into the Product Development group.

    Marcel has led technical activities, provided project leadership and has managed product development teams responsible for the delivery of drug projects from initial concept design through late stage development, regulatory submission and launch (including advanced drug delivery systems). He has led teams at the drug discovery-development interface, assessing the level of chemistry manufacturing and controls (CMC) technical risk and defining product design strategies in early development. Project experience has covered projects across a range of disease and therapy areas with substantial experience in the oncology field.

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      • Quality Assurance
      • QMS
      • Quality Management
      • Regulatory Guidance
      • Good Manufacturing Practice

      Vijay Masaun

      BSc (Hons)

      Director, Quality Assurance

      Vijay Masaun

      BSc (Hons)

      Director, Quality Assurance

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      Vijay is an experienced Quality Professional with a distinguished career marked by several senior quality roles within various pharmaceutical organisations primarily in the CDMO/CMO space.

      His comprehensive understanding of the pharmaceutical landscape, coupled with his strategic thinking, has enabled him to navigate the complexities of the evolving industry standards.

      Vijay has a proven track record spanning over 9 years in the pharmaceutical industry as well as training to be a Qualified Person (QP), which will bring valuable experience to the Seda GMP team and ensuring a commitment to upholding regulatory standards.

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        • Complex Medicines
        • Paediatric Product Development
        • CMC Regulatory

        Paul W Stott

        BPharm (Hons) PhD

        Chief Executive Officer

        Paul W Stott

        BPharm (Hons) PhD

        Chief Executive Officer

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        Paul is an established pharma executive with extensive global experience. Prior to joining Seda he was Vice President, Global Product Development at AstraZeneca, leading a group of over 350 scientists and engineers in the development of all products, manufacturing processes and analytical methods for the AstraZeneca small molecule portfolio.

        AstraZeneca Global Product Development has centres in the UK, Sweden, US and China and a network of partnerships with colleagues all over the world and under Paul’s stewardship registered 10 global products.

        At AstraZeneca Paul was accountable for the Drug Product CMC component of all Due Diligence assessments and was CMC lead on several multibillion dollar acquisitions. In addition, Paul is a visiting Professor of Pharmaceutics at the University of Manchester, UK and founder of the North West Centre for Drug Delivery (NoWCADD) at the University.

        He is a proven senior manager and strategic leader in Pharmaceutical Development with experience across geographical boundaries. Passionate about the development of individual and group capabilities and the application of innovation and scientific rigour to bring new medicinal products to market.

        He is recognised within the Industry and with Regulatory Agencies as a driving force in the establishment and realisation of best practice in CMC Quality by Design.

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          • DMPK Consultancy and Dose Selection
          • Pharmacokinetic Modelling
          • Complex Medicines
          • CMC Regulatory
          • Clinical Pharmacology
          • Analytical Sciences

          Paul A Dickinson

          BPharm (Hons) PhD

          Chief Scientific Officer & Co-Founder

          Paul A Dickinson

          BPharm (Hons) PhD

          Chief Scientific Officer & Co-Founder

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          Paul has held several senior science leadership roles in Academia and Large Pharma.  These roles focused on applying the best science in projects to ensure optimal product performance in the patient, thus bridging pharmaceutical and clinical disciplines.

           

          Immediately prior to founding Seda Pharmaceutical Development Services Paul was Senior Clinical Pharmacology Scientist at AstraZeneca and led the clinical pharmacology program to NDA/MAA for AZD9291/osimertinib, which had been awarded ‘breakthrough therapy’ status by the FDA.  Formerly Paul was a Principal Scientist within Pharmaceutical Development (AZ) leading both the global biopharmaceutics network and the Medicines Evaluation science community (USA, SE, UK).

           

          Paul has been at the forefront of recent advances in the understanding of in vitro performance criteria that assure product performance in the patient including clinically relevant dissolution specifications (CRDS).  Paul has co-authored papers with FDA staff focussed on efforts to combine biopharmaceutics with ICH Q8 (BioRAM) and is past Chair of the AAPS ‘QbD and product performance’ focus group.

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            • Complex Medicines
            • Oral Drug Delivery

            Alexander Clout

            BSc (Hons) PhD

            Associate Principal Scientist

            Alexander Clout

            BSc (Hons) PhD

            Associate Principal Scientist

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            Alex has a background in chemistry and holds a PhD in pharmaceutics from University College London, during which he gained extensive experience in the solid-state characterisation of pharmaceutical materials, including polymorphism and co-crystallisation, combining both thermal and structural analyses to develop a full picture of the changes occurring when materials undergo phase transitions. More recently he has worked on projects in formulation development with a particular focus on the microfluidic manufacture of nanomaterials for administration of sustained release parenterals. He also has valuable experience in the development and manufacture of oral solid dosage forms.

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              • Complex Medicines

              Lorraine Jones

              BSc (Hons)

              Senior Scientist

              Lorraine Jones

              BSc (Hons)

              Senior Scientist

              Lorraine has over 20 years’ high quality laboratory experience at a leading global pharmaceutical company and one of the world’s leading toxicology laboratories. She is experienced in most aspects of drug development and toxicology, ranging from pre-clinical toxicology through to human clinical trials.

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              • Complex Medicines

              Fanny Joubert

              BSc (Hons) PhD

              Senior Scientist

              Fanny Joubert

              BSc (Hons) PhD

              Senior Scientist

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              Fanny has a bachelor’s degree in chemistry, an engineer diploma in Materials Science and a PhD in Polymer Chemistry. Following her studies, she worked as a Research Associate for 6+ years in both Academia and large Pharma focussing on polymers for healthcare and precision nanomedicine applications. She joined Seda as Senior Scientist to facilitate the development of complex parenterals using her knowledge of nanotechnology.

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                • Complex Medicines

                Essyrose Mathew

                BSc (Hons) PhD

                Senior Scientist

                Essyrose Mathew

                BSc (Hons) PhD

                Senior Scientist

                Essy has a pharmaceutical science background with a PhD from Queen’s University Belfast. During her PhD she worked on 3D printed systems for transdermal drug delivery and the use of microfluidics for nanoparticle fabrication along with extensive experience in a range of analytical characterisation techniques. At Seda she will use her experience in pharmaceutics within the formulation development team, focusing on oral dosage forms and complex medicines.

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                • Complex Medicines
                • Clinical Pharmacology

                Claire Patterson

                MPharm (Hons) PhD

                Director: Complex Medicines

                Claire Patterson

                MPharm (Hons) PhD

                Director: Complex Medicines

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                Claire Patterson is Director, Complex Medicines at Seda with a Master of Pharmacy (MPharm) and a Ph.D. in Pharmaceutics from the Universities of Nottingham and University College London. Claire is an experienced Project Leader and Biopharmaceutics Scientist having spent 12 years with former employer AstraZeneca with roles in Early and Late Stage Product Development, plus 5 years as a senior leader within Seda. Claire specialises in subcutaneous delivery and complex parenterals (particularly long acting injectables and nanomedicines).

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                  • Oral Drug Delivery

                  Paul Gellert

                  BA DPhil

                  Associate - Complex Medicines

                  Paul Gellert

                  BA DPhil

                  Associate - Complex Medicines

                  Paul has 33+ years’ experience in Drug Discovery and Development at AstraZeneca, specialising in novel formulation, drug delivery and product design. He has led many projects and teams in identifying, evaluating and designing novel viable drug delivery-based products and new drug delivery technologies across a broad range of routes of administration and drug modalities including many complex medicines.

                  From 2017 to 2021, in additional to his role as Senior Principal Scientist in Drug Delivery, Paul was the Science & Innovation Director for Drug Delivery and Product Design, accountable for driving and championing science and innovation in drug delivery and product design to create new implementable business opportunities. Paul started and led AstraZeneca’s Global Novel Drug Delivery Network for many years and is widely recognised outside AstraZeneca as an expert on drug delivery technologies and the external drug delivery environment, including patent and intellectual property aspects.

                  Paul has collaborated extensively with academic groups and drug delivery companies and is the co-author and co-inventor of a number of publications and patent applications. He has been a member of a range of external groups including Editorial advisory board member for the Nanomedicine journal, Scientific Advisory Board member and Programme Chair for the Controlled Release Society Conference, Scientific Consultant to the Wellcome Trust and EPSRC programme External Advisory Board member.