Dr. Filipe Gaspar is the Vice President of R&D at Hovione and leads a group of 300 highly qualified individuals, both in the U.S. and Portugal. His areas of interest include knowledge management, particle engineering, quality by design, industrial marketing and business development. At Hovione he was involved in more than 200 projects and was the scientific leader of four projects that reached the commercial stage, including the first at Hovione submitted under QbD.