Community News Quarterly | April 2024
Community News Quarterly (CNQ) is a recurring article in the PDA Letter online. CNQ celebrates member milestones and acknowledges significant membership, professional and life events. Please send in your milestones or significant events if you would like to be included in a future CNQ (submissions@pda.org).
In this edition, CNQ recognizes members who have reached the 50, 40, 30, and 20-year membership milestone and remembers the life of long-time member of the PDA Europe Biomanufacturing Conference Committee Florence Wauters.
Membership Milestones
50 Years
James Agalloco, Metro Chapter
40 Years
Edward Trappler, Delaware Valley Chapter
Edward Smith, Delaware Valley Chapter
Myron Dittmer, New England Chapter
John Lee, West Coast Chapter
Robert Hagel, Metro Chapter
30 Years
Thomas Pamukcoglu, Capital Area Chapter
Jeanne Moldenhauer, Midwest Chapter
Evelyn Der, West Coast Chapter
William Grabowski, New England Chapter
Mary Schanne, Delaware Valley Chapter
Brian Boesch, Midwest Chapter
Jens Kemken, DACh Chapter
Ronald Marchesani, Midwest Chapter
Jonathan (Tony) Van Hoose, Southeast Chapter
H. Peggy Tao, West Coast Chapter
Gregory Birrer, Metro Chapter
Stephanie O'Sullivan, New England Chapter
Vincenzo Baselli, DACh Chapter
Hans-Joachim Zoller, DACh Chapter
Vincent Narbut, Southeast Chapter
Markus Moor
Allen Burgenson, Capital Area Chapter
Magdy Moussa, Canada Chapter
20 Years
Maria Esparza, Southern California Chapter
Elizabeth Martinez, Mexico Chapter
John Seagrief, United Kingdom Chapter
Timothy Eaton, United Kingdom Chapter
Milenko Pavicic
Kinya Kariya, Japan California
In Memory of Florence Wauters: An Example of the Kindness We want to See
Florence Wauters has been a cherished person and professional, who has left us in September 2023- too soon for those who have had the privilege to know her and are still inspired by her kindness and resilience. During her long fight against a disease, she has never stopped to smile.
Her dedication as a PDA volunteer was outstanding. She served several years on the scientific planning committee of the PDA Biomanufacturing Conference and was very active in the preparation of PDA technical documents for vaccines.
Florence was driven by exceptional values and behaviors, people-oriented, always collaborative, humble, respectful, and constructive, with remarkable listening and influencing skills. When talking about her with former and recent colleagues, these traits are consistently mentioned, along with her competence in several areas, built during her career in the pharmaceutical industry, including development of several life-saving vaccines. Thanks to this knowledge, she has provided critical contributions to regulatory affairs and CMC advocacy, actively working in cross-company groups, with a focus on a number of topics of major impact on public health, including pharmaceutical biomanufacturing innovations and industry learnings after the COVID pandemic.
Florence worked for 15 years in the biopharmaceutical industry with a focus on pharmaceutical process development, regulatory affairs, and project management. She joined MSD in 2016 after various positions in the area of drug product development and development technologies within GSK.
In our experience, Florence’s acts of kindness were typically done in silence, with no expectation of anything in return- we cannot count
her generous advice, helpful information, offers of connection to her broad network, and brilliant ideas. This letter is an attempt to give visibility to a beautiful person and friend, who will certainly be an example for current and next generations
of professionals. Thank you, Florence!