Desmond Hunt, PhD United States Pharmacopoeia

Dr. Desmond G. Hunt is a Sr. Scientific Liaison in the Department of Standards Development (DSD) at the United States Pharmacopoeia. For the 2015-2020 revision cycle, he is responsible for assisting USP Expert Committees, Packaging, Storage and Distribution and Dosage Forms, in the development and revision of USP Standards. Dr. Hunt has over 15 years of research experience and prior to joining USP, in 2005, was a Research Fellow at the National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA. Dr. Hunt’s expertise is in the areas of pharmaceutical packaging, good distribution practices, parenteral drug products, ophthalmic preparations and particulate matter analysis. He has published extensively nationally and international and has taught courses on various pharmaceutical topics around the world. Currently, he is a member the Product Quality Research Institute Container-Closure and Extractable and Leachable Working Groups; APEC – Global Drug Integrity and Supply Chain Security – Roadmap Committee and the Center for Disease Control Committee on Vaccine Storage.

He obtained his Master of Science and Doctoral Degree from the University of Texas at Austin, USA.