Kristina Parrant, BSC, PMP is Senior Manager, Project Management at the Evonik Vancouver Laboratories. She has been in this role since 2018, where she manages key customer projects and oversees the Project Management Office. Kristina is a PMI-certified project manager with well over a decade of experience leading translational drug development projects through clinical drug product manufacturing. She brings keen insight into leveraging project management procedures to find synergies across the drug development pathway and bring value to pharmaceutical project portfolios. Prior to her work in project management, Kristina received her BSc in biochemistry from the University of Saskatchewan, and her technical focus was centered on drug development for neurodegenerative disease.