Posts Tagged ‘Omar Mmubango’

Omar MMubango Scale-Up Manufacturing Know-How

January 28th, 2010

Omar MMubango, aside from being a known expert when it comes to Regulatory Affairs, is also a celebrated professional when it comes to utilizing Scale-Up or Large-Scale commercial manufacturing of the FDA or the Food and Drug Administration.

Large-Scale or Scale-Up commercial manufacturing is aimed at extending the manufacturing processes, starting from bench-scale experimentation until finally transferring to large-scale commercial manufacturing of new drug products.

The bench-scale trialing was done to explain how the transition occurs via various scale-up iterations, toxicology studies and clinical trials. This way, every single detail related to the drug is documented so that drug inconsistencies are avoided.

It is Omar MMubango who assesses the information and data provided completely before the information is then submitted to the FDA. The FDA will then assess the drug product’s information for accuracy and completeness.

Also, it is within Omar MMubango’s duty to make sure that the drug manufacturers strictly comply with the rules and regulations of the FDA and also of the International Conference on Harmonization (ICH).

There are standards and guidelines that drug manufacturers need to strictly adhere to so that their drugs will be approved for sale and marketing to the public. Having even just one inconsistency with the drug’s details and its documentation will be detrimental to its release to the public.

Whenever discrepancies are spotted, Omar MMubango steps right in and makes use of his expertise to initiate the necessary changes in the pharmaceutical’s information.

Omar Mmubango Audits Clinical Trials for Good Clinical Practice

October 15th, 2009

Omar Mmubango, a man who is proud to have learned what he knows from “the trenches of the pharmaceutical industry” (as he likes to put it) is an expert in conducting Good Clinical Practice (GCP) audits.  As founder of Regulatory Affairs CMC Resources Corporation (CMC Resources), Mr Mmubango is often called upon for his expertise in assessing and evaluating how clinical trials are conducted

Quality Assurance can be periodic, quarterly or for cause. Omar Mmubango evaluation of  GCP Quality Assurance and Regulatory Compliance, includes but  is not limited to Trials Master Files auditing, generating lists of violations or observations, discussing such observations with supervisors, managers of laboratories or the  principal director of research and recommending corrective actions and remedies.

Omar Mmubango hard won expertise is the result of years of experience in the pharmaceutical industry, learning everything from the ground up. During college, he worked as a tablet machine operator and Quality Assurance (QA) tester. His internship was spent as a research associate supporting clinical trials. After graduating, he continued his education in pharmaceuticals as a bench chemist in the Quality Control (QC) Laboratory.

Professionally, he gravitated towards regulatory compliance, verifying FDA submissions and applications. Throughout his career, he has audited and edited CMC sections of drug application files or dossiers for accuracy and completeness, before such applications were submitted to the FDA.

Omar Mmubango graduated from the University of Minnesota where he earned a B.Sc. in Chemistry as well as a BA Public Health-Affairs. He also has a B.Sc. in Agricultural Sciences—Food Science & Technology from the University of Wisconsin.

Omar Mmubango expertise in “Part 11” (Electronic Filing of FDA Applications)

October 13th, 2009

Omar Mmubango is the founder of Regulatory Affairs CMC Resources Corporation, a company which provides short and long term resources and services related to Regulatory Affairs in the Pharmaceutical Industry.

Through his many years in the pharmaceutical industry, Omar Mmubango has gained considerable expertise in coordinating the compilation, writing and filing of FDA drug applications. Whether an application involves Investigational New Drug Application (INDA), New Drug Approval (NDA), Biologic License Application (BLA) and Abbreviated New Drug Application (ANDA), Omar Mmubango has the practical and technical knowledge to see projects through.

Omar Mmubango is also considered an expert in FDA regulation 21 otherwise known as Code of Federal Regulations Part 11 or simply “Part 11,” which deals with FDA guidelines on electronic records and electronic signatures in the United States.

Part 11, defines the criteria under which electronic records and electronic signatures are considered trustworthy, reliable and equivalent to conventional paper records. In practical terms, Part 11 requires drug makers, medical device manufacturers, biotech companies, biologics developers, and other FDA-regulated industries (with specific exceptions,) to implement controls, which include audits, system validations, audit trails, electronic signatures, and documentation for software and systems involved in processing electronic data that are (a) required to be maintained by the FDA predicate rules or (b) used to demonstrate compliance to a predicate rule.
Mr Mmubango graduated from the University of Minnesota where he earned a B.Sc. in Chemistry as well as a BA Public Health-Affairs. He also has a B.Sc. in Agricultural Sciences—Food Science & Technology from the University of Wisconsin.