Jaap Venema, PhD United States Pharmacopoeia (USP)

Jaap Venema is Chief Science Officer for USP. He leads the organization’s scientific strategy and is responsible for the development of quality standards for medicines, dietary supplements, food ingredients and healthcare, including collaborations with other pharmacopeia and scientific groups. Dr. Venema guides USP's exploration of emerging technologies that may inform future quality standards and oversees the development and revision of USP documentary and reference standards, which continuously evaluates and revises standards to reflect current best practice. Dr. Venema also serves as Chair of the Council of Experts. This body guides and approves the draft standards developed by USP’s numerous expert committees, comprised of nearly 1000 scientific experts from academia, industry, healthcare, as well as government agencies.

Dr. Venema’s more than 25 years’ experience in global research and development and academic research informs his scientific leadership at USP. He previously served in a variety of scientific leadership positions at Solvay, Abbott and AbbVie in drug discovery and development in vaccines, pain care and immunology, and developed a global scientific and medical strategy for biotherapeutics. Before his transition to industry, Dr. Venema was a post-doctoral fellow at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory in Heidelberg and a Fellow of the Netherlands Academy of Sciences at the Free University of Amsterdam.