TOPRA elects Hunter, launches website

TOPRA held its Annual Review Meeting last night at its Fifth Annual Symposium in Budapest. Alan Hunter, founding TOPRA Board Member and a distinguished regulatory affairs practitioner assumed the Presidency of the organisation from Craig McCarthy. McCarthy will continue to serve on the Board as immediate past-President.

Mr. Hunter is dually qualified in pharmacy and law and has spent most of his career in the pharmaceutical industry. He latterly served as Regulatory and Legal Director and Company Secretary of Association of British Pharmaceutical Industries. He is now a consultant specialising in legal regulatory and Code of Practice issues. A Fellow of both TOPRA and the RPSGB, Mr. Hunter is also a member of the management committee of The Pharmaceutical Trade Marks Group (PTMG) and the editorial board of the International Journal of Pharmaceutical Medicine.

TOPRA also used the occasion of their annual review to launch its new website at www.topra.org. The newly designed website has added features for members and visitors alike. Extended Member features include complete access to TOPRA’s world class journal, Regulatory Rapporteur and detailed information on TOPRA’s Special Interest Groups (SPIN). This is the second new website that TOPRA has launched this year, having launched their Symposium Website, www.toprasymposium.com site in July.

New TOPRA President Alan Hunter said,

‘In the next 12 months we will build on our strategy to grow membership, extend services, and streamline our board to create stronger organisational governance.’ We have a programme of meeings including collaborations with Sweden’s Lakemedelsverket (Medicinal Products Agency), Austrian Agency for Health and Food Safety (AGES), the European Commission, and EMEA.