Anne Cargill
About Anne Cargill
Anne Cargill is a Senior Analytical Chemist with extensive experience in the pharmaceutical industry, currently working at Starpharma in Melbourne, Australia. She specializes in routine release and stability analysis for drug candidates and has a strong background in high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) methods.
Work at Starpharma
Currently, Anne Cargill serves as a Senior Analytical Chemist at Starpharma, a role she has held since 2016. In this position, she performs routine release and stability analysis for early phase drug candidates, adhering to Good Manufacturing Practice (cGMP) guidelines. Her responsibilities include writing reports for characterization experiments that support Investigational New Drug (IND) regulatory filings. Cargill also reviews and authorizes quality control data for batch manufacturing release, ensuring compliance with industry standards.
Previous Experience at Advent Pharmaceuticals
Anne Cargill previously worked at Advent Pharmaceuticals Pty Ltd. as a Senior Analytical Chemist for eight months in 2015 and 2016. During her tenure in Melbourne, Australia, she contributed to various analytical projects, enhancing her expertise in the field of analytical chemistry.
Background in Analytical Chemistry
Before her role at Starpharma, Cargill worked at Amgen as an Associate Scientist from 2002 to 2008 in Longmont, Colorado. She then transitioned to the Cawthron Institute, where she served as a Research and Development Technical Consultant from 2008 to 2015 in Nelson, New Zealand. These positions allowed her to develop a strong foundation in analytical chemistry and drug formulation.
Education and Expertise
Anne Cargill holds a Bachelor of Science degree with dual majors in Chemistry and Secondary Science Education from the University of Maryland College Park. She completed her high school education at Albert Einstein High School, where she earned her high school diploma. Cargill specializes in developing and validating high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC and UPLC) methods, with a focus on reversed phase and size exclusion chromatography.
Technical Skills and Responsibilities
In her current role, Cargill is responsible for writing GMP compliant validation protocols for the installation and operational qualification of new equipment. She also creates capital expenditure documentation for purchasing new instrumentation and responds to GMP audit findings. Additionally, she implements corrective and preventative actions using a CAPA process and troubleshoots minor HPLC issues, coordinating vendor maintenance for HPLC equipment.