Part of the events lined up for the Maiden Annual Seminar Series of the Department of Pharmaceutics and Pharmaceutical Technology of the University of Lagos is the Commissioning of the MEDAFRICA GMP laboratory.
The laboratory will be commissioned by the Vice-Chancellor of University of Lagos, Prof. Folasade Tolulope Ogunsola, FAS, and the President of MEDAFRICA Foundation USA and UNILAG, Mr. Marty L. Jeiven.
Mr. Marty L. Jeiven is the Founder and President of Jeiven Pharmaceutical Consulting, Inc., a firm supporting the pharma, biopharma, device, diagnostic, and dietary supplement industries worldwide since its founding in 1989. He has served as Manager of Clinical and Pre-Clinical materials at the R.W. Johnson Pharmaceutical Research Institute at Ortho Pharmaceutical Corporation for six years, previously holding the position of Research Pharmacist at Ciba-Geigy, where he spent seven years as a development scientist in solid dosage formulation research before coming to Ortho in 1982.
He has a Bachelor of science degree in Pharmacy and, Masters in physiology and zoology from Rutgers University. He has done graduate work in animal physiology at Rutgers, and in medicine at the Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium. Licensed in New York and New Jersey, Marty has practiced hospital and community pharmacy.
Jeiven has also worked with many companies resolving internal audit deficiencies, preparing for PAIs, establishing compliant documentation systems, training personnel at all levels, and authoring SOPs. He co-founded the Investigational Materials Discussion Group (IMDG), an organization of clinical supplies professionals that has met regularly since 1984 to share information on common concerns related to clinical manufacturing, packaging, and labeling. In 1995, Jeiven also founded the Clinical Supplies Support Group (CSSG) with similar goals as IMDG.
In 1995, he established Pharmaceutical Training Seminars (PTS), for the purpose of conducting basic and advanced training programs, both in-house and off-site, for a wide range of pharma-related industries in the areas of GMPs, GCPs, GLPs, Clinical Trial Materials (CTM), Shipping Validation, QA/QC, Patient and Site Compliant Packaging and Labeling, DEA Controlled Drugs, and Train-the-Trainer. Pharmaceutical Staffing Solutions (PSS) was founded in 2002 to support companies with qualified and well-trained full-time and temporary personnel. PSS focuses its efforts in the areas of CTM Project Management, QA/QC, Regulatory Affairs, and GCP Auditors and Monitors.
AdiraMedica, a global sourcing company for comparator drugs and APIs, was founded in 2006, and NutraReg LLC, was founded in 2011 to help dietary supplement companies comply with 21 CFR Part 111, the FDA’s GMP compliance regulations.
MEDAFRICA Foundation is responsible for setting up state-of-the-art GMP facilities and ensure knowledge and technology transfer is obtained through these facilities to bridge the gap between academia and industry in Sub-Saharan Africa.
The hybrid event themed “Academia/Industry Collaboration: A Case for Purpose Driven Research through Product Development in Line with cGMP Specifications” will hold on Tuesday, May 28, 2024, at Old Great Hall, College of Medicine University of Lagos Idi-Araba Lagos, and on Zoom.
