Dr Derek Robinson, Consultant

Derek Robinson gained his PhD in Physical Organic Chemistry from the University of St. Andrews in 1981. After completing two years post doctoral research at the University of Strathclyde, he joined the Pharmaceutical Research and Development group at Parke-Davis/Warner Lambert.

During the next eleven years he was responsible for the development and optimisation of synthetic routes to novel drug candidates, organising the scale-up to pilot plant and transfer to production facilities. He was manager of synthetic chemistry laboratories at Pontypool, Wales and Freiburg, Germany.

Since 1995 he has been an associate lecturer at Scientific Update. Derek has developed courses on Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP), Basic Organic Chemistry for Chemical Engineers and Statistical Experimental Design for Chemists. He also tutors the Chemical Development in the Fine Chemical and Pharmaceutical Industries course.

He has also worked with fine chemical companies to help develop documentation procedures and GMP training courses.