Biotechnology Operations: Principles and Practices

Because of rapid developments in the biotechnology industry―and the wide range of disciplines that contribute to its collective growth―there is a heightened need to more carefully plan and fully integrate biotech development projects. Despite the wealth of operations experience and associated literature available, no single book has yet offered a comprehensive, practical guide to fundamentals.

Filling the void, Biotechnology Operations: Principles and Practices reflects this integrative philosophy, serving as a practical guide for students, professionals, or anyone else with interests in the biotech industry. Although many books emphasize specific technical aspects of biotech, this is perhaps the first to integrate essential concepts of product development and scientific and management skills with the seven functional areas of biotechnology:

• Biomanufacturing
• Clinical trials
• Nonclinical studies
• Project management
• Quality assurance
• Quality control
• Regulatory affairs

A practical roadmap to optimizing biotechnology operations, this reference illustrates how to use specific product planning, design, and project management processes to seamlessly merge plans and efforts in the key functional areas. Applying lessons learned throughout the nascent history of biotech, author Michael Roy highlights developmental principles that could bring future products to market more safely and efficiently. Drawing from his experiences working in industry and teaching a graduate course at the University of Wisconsin, this hotly anticipated book clarifies basic methodologies and practices to help reduce risks and resolve problems as future technological discoveries are developed into tangible products.

Michael J. Roy, Ph.D., RAC, is an adjunct professor in the Master of Science Biotechnology Program in the School of Medicine and Public Health at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He teaches Biotechnology Operations and Project Management and Leadership. He has successfully developed biopharmaceutical and medical device products for more than 22 years, serving as a consultant in biotechnology since 2001. Much of his work has focused on early development of novel biotechnology products and medical devices with emphasis on product development planning, regulatory affairs, quality systems, and project management.

He received a Ph.D. in Pathology from University of Wisconsin–Madison, an MS in Tropical Medicine and Medical Parasitology from Louisiana State University Medical Center, and a BS in Biology from the University of Wisconsin–Platteville. In addition, he holds Regulatory Affairs Certification (RAC).

Mr. Roy is a retired colonel in the U.S Army. While serving, he was involved in the development of in vitro diagnostics and vaccines and in establishing ISO (International Organization of Standards) quality systems at the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases, Ft. Detrick.