Paula Peacos, M.S. ValSource, Inc.

Paula Peacos brings 30 years of practical industry experience as a Microbiologist. She has worked in contract manufacturing and testing organizations as well as small, mid-size and large pharmaceutical organizations.

Paula possesses extensive experience in aseptic processing, biological API/drug substance manufacturing, cell and gene therapies and nonsterile production, both clinical and commercial, as well as microbiological laboratory management.

She has also conducted numerous compliance audits internationally as a microbiological subject matter expert. She is an experienced trainer and has developed and implemented creative, customized developmental and remedial programs both in the US and abroad.

In recent years, Paula has published a number of articles, conducted technical webinars and presented at major industry meetings on topics such as data integrity, using contamination rates for trending analysis, designing and implementing robust environmental monitoring and trending programs and performing successful root cause analyses, among others.

Paula is currently employed as a Senior Consultant and Microbiological Subject Matter Expert at ValSource, Inc. She can be contacted at ppeacos@valsource.com.