William Peterson Merck & Co., Inc.

Will Peterson has spent the entirety of his 13-year career with a focus on sterilizing filtration, establishing himself as a technical expert on the topic both within Merck and within the industry. Sitting in a global quality department, he is "on call" to support dozens of biopharmaceutical manufacturing sites with respect to filter selection, filter validation, and filter integrity test troubleshooting. He is a founding member of the biophorum Sterile Filtration Quality Risk Management team and contributing author on articles regarding the practice of Pre-Use, Post-sterilization integrity testing. In summer 2022, Will accepted the role of co-lead of the PDA Filtration interest group.