Susan L. Ashley, PhD Merck & Co., Inc.

Susan Ashley has a bachelor’s degree in Pharmacy and doctorate in Pharmaceutics. She has more than 25 years of experience in global drug development, manufacturing, and strategy. Susan has worked for Merck, Pfizer Animal Health (formerly SmithKline Beecham Animal Health), and Marion Merrell Dow. Her areas of expertise and experience include quality control testing and release; semi-solid and solid dosage form design, scale up, technology transfer, and full-scale process validation; regulatory CMC; project management; sterile supply support; single-use component design and support for large molecule and sterile manufacturing; process simulation for sterile products; and aseptic behavior and technique training. She currently leads the Aseptic Training Initiative within Merck and has been responsible for developing and delivering a standard aseptic training curriculum for the Global Merck Sterile Network.