Endorsements for Susan Alters, Consultant

 "We have worked with Susan on about 10 projects. Her broad preclinical development expertise has been a great asset. She helped us develop target product profiles for our programs and define appropriate preclinical strategies. Susan has a network of contacts that helps her collect input and more importantly place studies with the most suitable CROs. She is very efficient and organized when managing programs that involve multiple parallel studies. Susan was also a great mentor to our employees and liberally shared her vast development expertise. I highly recommend Susan and hope to work again with her in the future."

   "It is my pleasure to recommend Susan Alters. I have been fortunate to work with Susan in multiple investigational trials and her expertise in the preclinical and clinical lab analyses has been invaluable. Prior to Susan joining the clinical team, we had no proficiency in this area. Adding Susan was a breath of fresh air. She is very knowledgeable, precise and a joy to work with. Susan has been available for consultation on all matters involving modeling and lab results and has taught the entire team, in her kind way, about the issues and problems we face moving complicated studies forward. Susan has been an incredible liaison with our lab vendors and provided that link that we were missing. I have considered it a privilege to work with someone as conversant as Susan." 

   " I had the opportunity to work with Susan at two biotech companies. In both cases Susan impressed me with her ability to quickly understand the needs of the project she was hired for, and only take on a project if she thought that she could add value. Susan has a broad knowledge base; I have worked with her on projects as diverse as performing comprehensive literature reviews for projects in cancer and inflammatory disease, to designing and managing studies for autoimmune disease and asthma/allergy. Susan is great at working with people with diverse backgrounds (for example, I am an engineer) and understands the importance of meeting timelines. I highly recommend her and look forward to working with her again." 

   "I had the pleasure of working with Susan for over 2 years. Susan was responsible for the planning, management and reporting of more than 30 preclinical studies ranging from pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic studies to complex efficacy studies in animal disease models across multiple indications including oncology, autoimmune diseases, diabetes and pain. To do this she developed internal systems to manage data and samples, interacted with multiple CRO’s and analyzed and presented significant amounts of data. All of this work was exemplary; however, the highlight of working with Susan was her clear analytical think and ability to engage intellectually on all manner of topics relating to the business. Her maturity, professionalism and breadth knowledge helped her not just to be good at her job but to be valuable resource for strategic decisions within the company such as: the selection of targets to which our half-life extension technology could be applied, evaluation of personnel and determination of strategic project milestones. She was a willing participant in discussions and an excellent team member. I cannot describe the true value of Susan to the organization, it was tremendous ." 

   "I have known Susan for several years and have worked with her on preclinical development of a variety of oncology therapeutics at several companies. Susan helped develop and execute the overall strategic plan including performing background research on the compounds and appropriate predictive models, designing and implementing studies, managing CROs and external collaborators, analyzing data and writing study reports. Susan also worked with business development on strategic evaluation of new product in-licensing opportunities. Her broad knowledge base enabled Susan to optimize the project plan and specific study designs for each individual compound. Susan was a pleasure to work with, and I recommend her without hesitation if you are seeking an experienced preclinical scientist/consultant in the life sciences industry." 

   " I have had the pleasure of knowing Susan for over 2 years. She has helped us in writing pharmacology reports and worked with research/development /clinical/regulatory team to analyze and review, and write up data for IND submission. She is a sharp individual with pharmacology/preclinical development/clinical development experience in various disease areas. She is purpose-minded and I have enjoyed working with her and enthusiastically recommend her."