PDA Missouri Valley: Fall 2024 Dinner Event

Featured Presenters

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  Ziva Abraham, PhD

  CEO, Microrite, Inc.

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  Ziva Abraham, PhD

  Microrite, Inc.

  Ziva Abraham is the founder and CEO of Microrite, Inc. a California based consulting firm providing services from facility design to product release. She has over 35 years of academic, research, clinical and industrial experience in Microbiology, and Quality Assurance. Ziva has received her master’s degree in microbiology and has conducted research on developing microbial insecticides using entomogenous bacteria and fungi towards her Ph.D. degree. She worked as a clinical scientist for many years and established clinical laboratory systems in Israel. These laboratories conducted clinical testing in microbiology, chemistry, parasitology, hematology and immunology. She is a passionate microbiologist and mycologist and provides training worldwide on various microbiology and contamination control related topics. Her clinical experience helps her evaluate and teach the clinical implications of microbial contamination on patients.
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  Glenn E. Wright, MA

  Parenteral Drug Association

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  Glenn E. Wright, MA

  Parenteral Drug Association

  GLENN E. WRIGHT is currently the President and CEO, PDA. Glenn has more than 30 years of experience in the pharmaceutical industry. Previously, he served in various technical and senior leadership positions at Exelead, Eli Lilly, Amgen, and Pfizer. He has extensive technical, regulatory, and quality expertise in both small molecule and biologic drug substance manufacturing as well as sterile injectable drug product manufacturing. Glenn has served on the PDA Board of Directors, Science Advisory Board, and Program Advisory Board. In addition, he has chaired numerous PDA meetings, Task Forces, and Steering Committees. Glenn is a frequent speaker at PDA and industry events. He received his BS and MS degrees in Microbiology from Southern Illinois University.