Steve Bannister

Dr. Bannister is a consulting chemist specializing in drug analysis. He is trained in the fundamentals of science and passionate about their application. Steve has focused on chemical analysis throughout his twenty-five year career in drug development and has been responsible for hundreds of analytical methods for the identification and quantitation of drugs and other substances in samples including blood, urine, tissue, excreta, powders, pills, lotions, potions, weeds, and seeds. He persistently challenges the commonly held belief that expensive technology insures the validity of analytical data. In fact, applying the challenge of the Scientific Method to every single step in an analysis – not just the instrument - is the only way to assess and demonstrate data validity. “Theory guides, experiment decides” I.M. Kolthoff, 1894-1993

Steve has more than twenty-five years of experience in the pharmaceutical industry, with broad responsibility for drug development, always including analytical chemistry. Both as a scientist and as a manager he has been accountable for the technical performance and regulatory compliance of drug-testing laboratory operations. He has extensive experience reviewing the development, documentation, and execution of methods of chemical analysis, and has audited service-providing laboratories.

Steve now has a consulting practice assisting scientists in drug development, executives in research and development strategy, and lawyers in civil and criminal litigation. He previously worked for Big Pharma, and for start-up (NaPro BioTherapeutics) and generic firms (Ivax). He received his BS in Pharmacy from the University of Georgia and his MS and PhD in Pharmaceutical Chemistry from the University of Kansas. More details are available at http://www.linkedin.com/in/stevejbannisterphd