Interview with Dr John Stubbs (Stubbs & Hensel Pharma Consulting) on regulatory challenges and the current state of the pharmaceutical industry

John Stubbs spoke to Bioanalysis Zone in February 2011. Could you tell Bioanalysis Zone a little about your career to date and how you ended up in your current role? I have spent my whole career in Pharmaceutical R&D, mainly in bioanalysis and drug metabolism (14 years at Merck Research and 20 years at Johnson & Johnson). I had an opportunity to work with PhRMA on the Drug Metabolism Steering Committee, which gave me a greater insight into the partnership of the pharmaceutical industry and the US FDA in getting new drugs through the development and approval pipeline. I retired in...