People
Senior staff
Dr Stephen Newlands – Owner and Director of EPP
Stephen Newlands is the chemist who started EPP in 1992 and has been responsible for leading and directing the company from its creation. He was born and raised a native Scot only a few kilometres from the Science Park where the company is based.
A graduate of the University of Edinburgh, Stephen started his working life as a research chemist with BP, before moving on to become a development chemist with a pharmaceutical (API) manufacturer, Macfarlan Smith (formerly part of Glaxo) in Edinburgh. He is a Member of the Royal Society of Chemistry, a Chartered Chemist and a Chartered Scientist. His interests include bird-watching and rifle shooting (though he does not combine the two pursuits!).
Mr. Bruce Craig - Analytical Services Manager
Mr Craig joined EPP Ltd in May 2008 as Analytical Services Manager from previous employment at Charles River (previously Inveresk Research) where he spent 20 years as a study director in the agrochemical registration field.Mr Craig's expertise is in the area of 5-Batch Analysis and physico-chemical testing where he developed the business extensively at CRL/Inveresk.
- Has conducted over 150 programmes of work in the 5-Batch Analysis and physico-chemical testing area.
- Registration studies on new molecules for multinational companies as well as many studies conducted for off-patent generic molecules.
Dr. Ian Dawson - New Product Development Manager
Dr Ian Dawson has over 34 years experience in chemistry including organic synthesis, radio and stable isotope labelling, structure elucidation, isolation and identification of natural products. Expertise in LCMS and NMR. Manager of EPP LCMS and NMR Service.
- Senior Chemist Edinburgh Pharmaceutical Processes Synthesis of Impurity Standards, Metabolites, Process Research 1995-2001.
- Scientific Manager in Chemistry Department Charles River Laboratories 2002- 2006 Manager of LCMS service-Metabolite and Impurity Identification, synthesis and radiolabelling.
Mr. Graeme Muir - Production Manager
Mr Graeme Muir has over 25 years experience in medicinal and organic chemistry and is currently overseeing both multi-kilo and small scall synthesis projects.
- Synthetic organic chemist at Edinburgh University Pharmacology dept specialising in route-design and synthesis towards biologically active compounds in the prostaglandin field.
- Synthetic organic chemist at EPP Ltd involved in R&D projects, kilo scale production, and the synthesis of fine chemical and agrochemical analytical reference standards. Quality control manager since 2007.
Dr. David Tredgett – QA Manager
Dr David Tredgett currently works as QA Manager at EPP. He has over 10 years experience of the custom synthesis of new, or commercially difficult to obtain, fine organic compounds for use as agrochemical or fine chemical analytical reference standards.
- Synthetic Organic Chemist position at Avocado Research Chemicals. Involved in process research, and the manufacture of fine chemicals on gram to kilo scale 1999-2002.
- Synthetic Organic Chemist at EPP involved in R&D projects, kilo scale production, and the synthesis of agrochemical and fine chemical analytical reference standards. Production Manager since 2008.
Dr. Robin Hall – Senior Chemist
Dr. Robin Hall has over 19 years experience in synthetic route design and organic synthetic methodology. Main areas of interest - synthesis of indole, quinoline and isoquinoline based compounds.
- Senior Chemist at Maybridge Chemicals 1990 – 2002.
- Principal Chemist at Key Organics 2002 - 2007.
Ms Victoria Mora-Vallejo - Chemist
Victoria Mora-Vallejo, originally from Spain, has almost 10 years experience of working as a Synthetic Organic Chemist. After completing her studies at the University of Malaga in Spain, Victoria worked as an Organic Chemist at Maybridge Ltd in Cornwall for 6 years where she attained the post of Senior Chemist before moving to Scotland where she joined EPP Ltd in 2008.
Dr Karen Anderson - Chemist / Health & Saftey Officer
Dr Anderson joined EPP Ltd in 2004 after completing a post doc in synthetic organic chemistry at AMRI in the USA. Previous to this, Karen studied at Edinburgh University and completed a years work at Merck also. Karen has an expert knowledge of organic chemistry and has been responsible for EPP Ltd's health & safety policy for the past 4 years.
Dr Iain Nicolson - Project Director
Dr Iain Nicolson has 7 years experience working as an organic chemist. After completing his MChem and PhD at Edinburgh University, Iain worked at the Scottish Environment Protection Agency and Charles River Laboratories where he worked in metabolite identification & bio-transformation. Iain is highly experienced in LCMS & GCMS and is an essential part of EPP Ltd's analytical & synthetic team.
Eilidh Paterson - Study Director
Eilidh joined EPP in May 2010 as a Study Director following previous employment at Charles River Laboratories.
Eilidh started her employment at Charles River (then Inveresk Research) in Oct 1998 following a degree in Applied Chemistry at Strathclyde University. Eilidh has over 10 years experience in 5-Batch Analysis and Physico-Chemical testing and became a Study Director in May 2002.