Validated Biosystems Inc. (Dr Pete Gagnon)

Locating an effective and experienced consultant to advise on development and implementation of robust downstream purification is like prospecting for gold. Lots of searching and questioning can never be sure to yield the truly valuable seam. Only a few wealthy prospectors know where the gold is, and they’re not about to tell anyone else!

Ideally one seeks the services of an experienced practitioner with a breadth of that elusive quality... "practical hands-on experience"... which by definition is not normally to be found within a single organisation. That person must then work as a full and committed team member with the same predefined objectives as those who have hired him.

It is therefore with the greatest of pleasure and with great confidence that PRS is pleased to refer its own customers and website visitors to Pete Gagnon, whose consultancy company, Validated Biosystems Inc. (www.validated.com), has developed over many years from his personal and varied work with a client list which includes most of the “Blue Chip” Biotech and Biopharma companies. His credentials are unique in the business. He is, above all, a person who thrives on getting out there and actually working as an effective guide and leader for the project based team.

Pete may be well known by reputation to many of you already. His consultancy activities over many years have included regular workshops and courses, which are described in greater detail on his own web site. He has, amongst many other publications and activities, authored one of the most informative and easy to follow dissertations on practical downstream purification currently available as a published reference book…”Purification Tools for Monoclonal Antibodies” (ISBN 0-9653515-9-9). When I first came across this publication back in 1996, I was so convinced of its value to all biochromatographers that I arranged to distribute it to all my colleague sales professionals. This book lays the foundations for best practise for practising biochromatographers in general, despite its more focussed title.

Validated Biosystems Inc is a source of regular articles, posters and other publications on separations technology, with frequent reviews of new developments. We can all be grateful for Pete’s knowledgeable commitment and infectious enthusiasm for the complex and challenging subject of separations technology. His own web site perfectly complements the intended focus of this PRS web site with highly qualified comment on innovative advances in the industry. Already he has posted reviews on both the Atoll and the BIA Separations technological platforms, which I would encourage visitors to review.

Should any visitor to the PRS web site be in need of high quality, practical consultancy I have no hesitation in recommending Pete Gagnon, whom you will find a professional, friendly and valuable contact and who, more importantly, will provide a service value far in excess of any consultancy fee.

JOHN H CREEDY