Mark Sacchetti PhD

Mark Sacchetti earned his Ph.D. in 1992 from the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Pharmacy, where he worked with Professor George Zografi, studying viscoelastic properties of monolayers at the air-water interface. Since graduating, Mark has worked in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries. Mark started his industrial career at GlaxoSmithKline (then Glaxo), where he developed formulations of inhaled powders, and subsequently applied his passion for physical chemistry to the physicochemical characterization of NCEs and excipients used in oral and parenteral dosage forms.

At GSK, Mark reached the position of Manager of Physical Properties and developability, where his group examined the physical properties of materials, developed and validated methods, and set appropriate specifications when needed for processing and product performance. Mark worked at Genentech for a short time, helping to establish their small molecule pre-formulation/formulation group.