Nicole Deschamps, PhD GSK

Nicole Deschamps, PhD is a Senior Director, Strategic Product Quality at GSK where she provides leadership for Product Quality leads, end-to-end product quality leadership and oversight for small molecule and biopharm programs throughout product and process development, technology transfer, commercialization, and major lifecycle changes. Nicole has a PhD in Chemistry and started her career at GSK in 2007 in process development where she specialized in the application of laboratory automation tools, advanced manufacturing technologies, Quality by Design, and continuous improvement. In her current role, Nicole has the privilege of collaborating within dynamic cross-functional teams to deliver new life-saving medicines to patients, often via accelerated regulatory approval pathways, new manufacturing technologies such as continuous manufacturing, and lifecycle changes for critical products to continuously improve and ensure compliant and robust supplies of product to our patients. Nicole lives in North Carolina with her husband, two teenaged children and pet dog. She can often be spotted cheering on her kids at the soccer fields, hiking, and walking the dog. She now considers her kitchen to be her lab and loves to cook and garden.