13th American DDF Summit - Drug Delivery & Formulation

Márcio Temtem
Senior Director, Strategic Business Management Products at Hovione

Chemical engineer with 15 years of experience in the Pharmaceutical Industry, in the fields of Solubility Enhancement, Dry Powder Inhalation, Controlled Release, and Drug Product Development. 

Twelve years of experience in R&D, from which the last 2 years were heading Hovione’s team in Portugal, Reporting to Hovione's Chief Technology Officer, with responsibilities over Process Chemistry Development, Drug Product Development, Analytical Development, Process Safety, Modelling, and PAT.

In the last 2.5 years, Senior Director and Strategic Business Management Products, Reporting to Hovione's CEO, with responsibilities for the P&L and Development of the Portfolio of Products at Hovione.

Ian Parrag
Vice President of R&D at Ripple Therapeutics

Ian is one of the founders of Ripple Therapeutics (RIPL) following its spin out from Interface Biologics (IBI) in 2020. Ian has a PhD in Chemical and Biomedical Engineering from the University of Toronto and a BASc in Biomedical Engineering (Engineering Science) from the University of Toronto.

Ian joined IBI in 2010 and is responsible for leading the R&D Team in the discovery of novel prodrugs for drug delivery and in managing the nonclinical development (Preclinical evaluation and Chemistry, Manufacturing, and Controls (CMC)) for controlled drug delivery product concepts through to clinical readiness. As lead inventor for the Epidel^TM technology, Ian is also responsible for managing and strategically developing Ripple’s platform and patent portfolio. Ian has 7 granted US patents, 11 pending US patent applications, 3 pending PCT patent application and 24 pending international patent applications along with a robust pipeline of provisional patent applications in process. Ian is an author of 7 peer-reviewed journal articles and recipient of a Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada Industrial R&D Fellowship.