Nick Thomson's Biography

Nick Thomson, Senior Director, Chemical Research and Development , Pfizer, Inc.

Nick graduated from the University of Edinburgh with a BSc (Hons) in Environmental Chemistry before completing a PhD in organic synthesis under Prof. Gerry Pattenden at the University of Nottingham, England. Nick worked briefly at Zeneca Fine Chemicals Manufacturing Organization, Grangemouth (UK) and joined Pfizer in 1997 as a synthetic chemist in Process Research & Development. Nick spent his early Pfizer career in the evolving process chemistry departments in Sandwich (UK), Sittingbourne (UK) and Holland, Michigan (USA). From 2005 to 2010, Nick led the Sandwich Research Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient (API) department, with accountability for delivery of API technology from lead development to proof of concept. In 2011, Nick joined the Pfizer Chemical Research and Development department in Groton, Connecticut (USA), as a Director of API Process Chemistry Laboratories, with accountability for the Quality by Design development and submission of late stage candidates. In 2014, Nick became head of the Technology API line for Pfizer Chemical Research and Development, with accountability for Lab of the Future, Chemical Technologies, Biocatalysis, Computational Chemistry and Flexible API Supply Technologies (Continuous). Nick has been active in cross pharmaceutical precompetitive collaboration, as Chair of the IQ API Leadership Team and a board member of the Enabling Technologies Consortium.