Ronald Forster PhD

Dr. Forster is the Executive Director, Device Final Drug Product Technology department at Amgen Inc. Responsible for all Container Closure Systems, their integration into combination products, devices and drug substance systems. His team has developed and published numerous standards for Biological Packaging systems, led multi-company teams to establish guidance’s in Biological Packaging development, and serves on numerous customer advisory boards for packaging suppliers.

He is also a Board of Director member as well as head of the Technical Advisory Committee for the Suzhou Industrial Park Biologics and Pharmaceutical Packaging institute (Upon accreditation this facility will become the Chinese National Biological Packaging Testing Laboratories)

Prior to joining Amgen, Ron was with Merck Inc. where he was Senior Principle Engineer leading a group that implement Quality by Design for primary packaging systems from early clinical development through commercial supply chain systems. He was a key leader in advancing the Merck Commercialization process and served as a global manufacturing lead on a key product franchise board.

He also served as an Adjunct Professor at Rutgers University in Biomedical Engineering and Ceramic Engineering. Ron has an Interdisciplinary Ph.D. from Rutgers University in Chemical Engineering, Ceramic Engineering, and Mechanics and Materials Science