William Peterson Merck & Co., Inc.

Will Peterson, Director of sterility assurance at Merck, has spent his career focused on sterilizing filtration, sterility assurance, and single-use technology. Sitting in a global quality department, he is "on call" to support dozens of internal & external manufacturing sites with respect to selection, validation, and troubleshooting of these technologies. He has establishing himself as a technical expert on the topics within Merck and the industry, co-leading of the PDA Filtration Interest Group, PDA RE #26 revision committee, and serving as a founding member of the biophorum Sterile Filtration Quality Risk Management team.