James is a Research Advisor at the Albemarle South Haven facility. He
has served as the technical lead on several API projects, encompassing
the full spectrum of product stages from phase I to commercialization.
In a 23-year career in pharmaceutical process research and development,
he has worked both for CDMOs and large-pharma companies,
such as Merck and Abbott Laboratories. He earned a Ph.D. in organic
chemistry from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and continued
to a postdoctoral research position at Colorado State University.
