Regulatory and Quality Compliance Masters Degree Program

Committee/Directors
Graduate Committee
After admission, students will choose an MS committee. This committee will consist of the Head of the Department of Industrial and Physical Pharmacy, the academic director of the program and one other person. This committee will help formulate a plan of study such that students are able to select the proper courses during your years in the program. Until a plan of study is filed, the Head or Associate Head of the department, will serve as the student’s informal advisor.

Program Co-Directors
Dr. Stephen R. Byrn is the Charles B. Jordan Professor at the School of Pharmacy, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana. He is also Head of the Department of Industrial and Physical Pharmacy. He received his B.A. degree from DePauw University and his Ph. D. degree in Chemistry from the University of Illinois, Urbana. He did postdoctoral research at UCLA. His research focuses on the solid-state chemistry of drugs. Dr. Byrn has extensive experience as a consultant in the pharmaceutical industry and currently serves on the Council of Experts of the USP, the Drug Substance Technical Committee of PQRI, and is past chair of the Pharmaceutical Sciences Advisory Committee of the FDA. Dr. Byrn is co-founder of SSCI, a company providing analytical chemistry services and consultation.

Dr. Michael J. Schmidt graduated from the University of Wisconsin and then received his MS degree from the University of Missouri School of Pharmacy at Kansas City and his Ph. D. in pharmacology from Vanderbilt University Medical School. He did postdoctoral research at the National Institutes of Health. He then joined Eli Lilly where he worked first as a laboratory researcher and then in a number of management positions in the areas of discovery research, toxicology, and worldwide quality assurance for preclinical and clinical studies. He retired in 2000. He has published over 50 papers and worked with numerous scientific associations. Post-retirement he consults in the pharmaceutical industry, served as a quality and compliance advisor to Indiana University, and serves as a board member with several science education and youth-serving organization. Dr. Schmidt is founder and president of Dr. Bones Education Indianapolis, Inc., which is a science education outreach company.