Tara M. Scherder, MS SynoloStats

Tara Scherder has over 20 years of experience in the pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical industries as a statistician, process engineer, and master black belt. Her motto is “statistics can’t be performed in a vacuum” and combines expertise in manufacturing and analytical processes, statistics, and business context to meet goals. She has functioned as both an in-house and external statistical consultant to drug substance and drug product teams from product development through commercial supply for the spectrum of product platforms. She frequently speaks at industry forums and publishes on the practical incorporation of statistical methods for Lifecycle Process Validation. Tara earned a BS degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Pittsburgh and a MS degree in Statistics from Carnegie Mellon University. As partner at SynoloStats, she passionately shares the opportunity for patient and business benefit through the powerful combination of statistics and process.