Jonathan Loughrey

Jonathan Loughrey – Associate Director – Physical Sciences and Isotope Chemistry

Jonathan graduated from the University of York with a degree in Chemistry and joined Abbott Laboratories as a process chemist, studying controlled crystallization and quantitative identification of high risk polymorphs within final batches of drug substance.

Jonathan then completed a PhD in organic chemistry at the University of Leeds under the joint supervision of Malcolm Halcrow and Michaele Hardie and after various postdoctoral appointments in the UK and USA, Jonathan joined a boutique UK contract research organization specializing in solid form development of active pharmaceutical ingredients, rising through the ranks to eventually oversee their global materials characterization and solid form screening business function.

In June 2021, Jonathan joined Almac to oversee Almac Science’s Physical Sciences business function which incorporates all aspects of materials characterization, solid form screening (polymorphs, salts, and co-crystals), crystallization process development, amorphous solid preparation, milling and micronisation, and preformulation/tox formulation development for small molecules and peptides.