Samir Haddouchi

Managing Director, SPS Pharma Services, France

Prior to joining SPS Pharma Services in 2005, Samir spent more than 10 years in the pharmaceutical industry. As a chemist, he started working on the analytical development of agrochemical compounds at Sandoz Agro in the region of Basel (Switzerland).During the Novartis merger, he movedto Orléans (France) in 1998 to join the analytical group in the technical development department where he became responsible for dissolution.

In 2005, he resigned from Novartis to create SPS Pharma Services in Clermont Ferrand which is the first and only CRO specialized in Dissolution and Release Testing. Since then, Samir manages SPS facility and is in charge of projects management. In April 2013, SPS Pharma Services moved to a new larger facility in Orleans (France) in order to ensure better efficiency and provide a broader range of services to its clients, including cGMP routine testing. Fields of interest and expertise: analytical development (HPLC), in vitro dissolution and release testing (all techniques from USP1 to USP7), in vitro-in vivo correlations (IVIVC), formulation development, laboratory automation. Samir is regularly invited as speaker in international conferences as well as expert for various organizations (scientific societies and Health Authorities).