J. Fred Pritchard

As Vice President of Global Drug Development, Dr. Pritchard leads a global team of drug development and regulatory affairs experts, project management professionals and alliance managers that work actively with clients to bring their drug products efficiently through early clinical testing.

Dr. Pritchard brings 30 years of drug development experience to his work, including pre-registration work on five currently marketed pharmaceuticals and several that are currently in clinical development. Leveraging his experience in leading international teams of scientists at large pharmaceutical companies, Dr. Pritchard founded and led a group of consultants and program directors within a full service CRO that collectively worked on nearly 40 integrated drug development programs, bringing several of these through IND into phase I and II clinical trials.

Dr. Pritchard has given numerous invited lectures at scientific meetings and academic institutions and is an author on over 120 scientific publications and abstracts. He is the 2000 Alumni Fellow of the Penn State College of Medicine and was named one of nine “Notable People in Pharmaceutical R&D” by R&D Directions magazine in 2009. He currently serves on the Therapy Acceleration Program Committee for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society (LLS), the LLS North Carolina Chapter Board of Trustees, and the Executive Committee of the Research Triangle Park Drug Metabolism Discussion Group, where he has been a past Chair and Treasurer.