James K. Mellman, PhD Novartis

James has worked at Novartis in Basel Switzerland since 2014 as a device manager within the Packaging Technologies team in the Device Development & Commercialization department.

His main responsibilities include developing primary packaging systems for combination products and supporting new technologies for development and operations. He has worked on several innovative projects in which the primary packaging system had to be developed for an injectable device. He has also helped to build and implement a renovated CCIT strategy for the Novartis Group.

Before Novartis, James worked at Pfizer in their Devices Center of Excellence in Cambridge, UK (2008-2011) and Nutricia in their Advanced Medical Nutrition Division in Amsterdam, NL (2011-2014). He received his PhD from the University of Florida in Materials Science & Engineering in 2007 specializing in biomaterials.