Project Management

Drawing on over 30 years of collective industry experience, the Office of Therapeutics, Discovery and Development’s Project Directors organize multi-disciplinary project teams to ensure researchers, cores, centers, industry partners, regulatory and technology transfer resources collaborate in an integrated and organized fashion.  Teams are empowered to define overall project objectives, key decision points, and detailed project plans. 

Unique to the university setting, best practices from project management in the pharmaceutical industry are applied and utilized.  Creating high performance project teams across institutions and campuses and implementing accelerated project plans allows for many minds to collectively advance a project in hopes of discovering a new agent to treat or prevent cancer.  Project Directors become involved at the onset of a project to help identify the objectives and determine the layout in advance, utilizing the pharmaceutical development guidelines as a road map for investigators.  

Project Directors coordinate collaboration on project teams with multiple disciplines including: drug discovery, drug manufacturing, toxicology, pharmacokinetics, safety pharmacology, pharmaceutics, analytical chemistry, clinical pharmacology, regulatory, clinical development, biostatistics, marketing, technology transfer and other industry partners.