Catalent Scientist Honored with 2008 Jack L. Beal Award

03-Jun-2009 - USA

An article co-authored by Dr. Hans Westenburg, a senior scientist of structural characterization and analysis at Catalent Pharma Solutions in San Diego, has been selected for the Jack L. Beal Award as best paper for 2008 by the American Chemical Society’s (ACS) Journal of Natural Products. The winning article is titled “Isolation and Structure Determination of Malevamide E, a Dolastatin 14 Analogue, from the Marine Cyanobacterium Symploca laete-viridis” and is the structure elucidation of a peptide from a marine cyanobacterium.

The Jack L. Beal Award is bestowed upon younger investigators, persons within 12 years of receiving their Ph.D. degree or within 10 years of gaining their first professional appointment. The award is named after a former editor of the Journal of Natural Product.

Based in Catalent’s Trade Place facility in San Diego, CA, Dr. Westenburg works to structurally identify impurities for virtual, generic, small-, and mid-size pharmaceutical companies. In his current capacity, he has been able to identify impurities belonging to a large number of structural classes. The identification of these impurities supports the client to enable greater reporting thresholds or, in some instances, identify an impurity causing discoloration of a drug substance or product. During the past two years, Dr. Westenburg has routinely monitored low-level genotoxic impurities by QTOF LCMS in a drug product. For the past decade, the majority of his work has been in the impurity identification for pharmaceutical companies concerning impurities in drug substances [Q3A(R2)] and impurities in drug products [Q3B(R2)], in compliance with the International Conference on Harmonization (ICH) guidelines.

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