Please join us online for this virtual guest lecture & seminar that will offer a unique opportunity to understand the mechanisms that create and enhance our knowledge economy.

The COVID-19 crisis has brought medical research, and its role for both society and economy, to the forefront of public interest. This has been, for example, a core topic for the US elections.

While pharmaceutical products look increasingly like magic to all of us, they are instead the result a complex supply chain involving researchers and innovators across the globe.聽

This exclusive insight from an industry insider offers the聽opportunity to understand exactly where pharmaceutical products come from and how scientific innovation really works.聽聽

Dr. Eugene (Gene) Tarlton聽is a member聽of the Research & Development team聽at Pfizer. Dr. Tarlton develops protocols that govern the production of pharmaceutical products, from kilograms to tons, ensuring that government guidelines on safety and purity are met. His role in managing complex network that connect ideas, raw materials, individuals, institutions, and markets is a great example of how innovation functions -聽and it's what gives our developed economies a comparative, significant advantage.聽

Dr. Tarlton will cover

• Processing R&D in the pharmaceutical industry聽聽
• Innovation networks and pharma supply chain聽聽
• The cost of R&D (i.e. COVID-19 Vaccine)聽
• The role of science in our society聽聽

Dr. Tarlton has been in the pharmaceutical industry for 40 years and worked on a variety of therapeutic areas.聽He is a synthetic organic chemist whose main focus has been in cancer research and development. Dr. Tarlton is intimately aware of the considerations聽in getting聽a drug from initial idea to final NDA (New Drug Application).聽