Management Team

Chief Executive Officer:
Dr. Q Nawaz is a Pharmacist by training and has a PhD in pharmaceutical formulations and previously worked as Head of Quality and Technical Affairs of a pharmaceutical company. In addition to management responsibilities he is responsible for technical affairs, Quality Assurance and Regulatory Affairs. He is a member of Royal Pharmaceutical Society and Royal Society of Chemistry and is a visiting fellow at the School of Pharmacy, Aston University.

Head of Quality Control:
Dr K Zhao is a chemist by training with a PhD in synthetic organic chemistry. He has extensive chemistry laboratory experience gained through his post doctoral fellowship at the Medicinal Chemistry department at Aston University.

Head of Production (Licensed Manufacturing)
Dr Y Ziang is a biotechnologist by training and has a PhD in Chemistry and during her professional career has acquired extensive experience in production process design, supervision of production, facility design, GMP training and biopharmaceutical manufacturing.

Qualified Person
A qualified person is engaged to carry out the statutory requirements of QP release for licensed products.

Manufacturing & QC Laboratory

At Sterling Pharmaceuticals the core of our manufacturing service is our production facility which constitutes of a modern high specification clean room complex housing compounding rooms and manufacturing/packaging areas along with ancillary areas. This manufacturing facility is designed, constructed and commissioned to current EU GMP regulations and standards.

The manufacturing area houses process vessels to allow for the production of batch sizes up to 1000kg for non-sterile liquids and 500Kg for semi-solids.

The basis of our clean environment is the air-handling system which provides a HEPA filtered and conditioned air producing differential air pressures between compounding, manufacturing/packaging, dispensing, changing and checking areas. The air pressures and air changes are specified and validated and are monitored routinely for compliance with defined specifications.

As part of our Quality Assurance we routinely monitor parameters such as temperature, relative humidity, microbiological levels of bacteria, fungi and moulds.
This allows us to maintain a high quality area for the production of ‘specials’ products and large batch manufacturing.

In addition to the production facility we also have a state of the art quality control laboratory which is equipped with a modern HPLC system, UV-VIS spectrophotometer, Infra-Red spectrometer, stability chambers and miscellaneous laboratory equipment. In our QC lab we are continuously testing new formulations for chemical stability allowing us to assign validated expiry dates to products we manufacture.