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Richard H. Collier,
Ph.D.
Dr.
Collier is Director, Regulatory Affairs for LANDIS and has over 25 years
experience in regulatory science, registration, and information systems in
academia and the corporate sector. He is a results-oriented, innovative
leader with Ph.D. in Biochemistry with a proven record of individual
accomplishment and team leadership with high impact results aligned with
business goals. Dr. Collier’s primary strengths lie in his broad range of
experience in the regulatory science disciplines, leadership of technical
teams to deliver focused high-impact business goals, and innovative
scientific and administrative solutions to business and regulatory
issues.
Dr.
Collier has directed scientific investigations required to develop,
achieve regulatory approval of, commercialize, and maintain the license to
market new products and improvements to existing products in all global
markets. He has successfully defended key products in major science
reassessments by the US EPA and provided science expertise and regulatory
advice and services to support global business goals through gaining new
product registrations, reregistering existing products, and obtaining
registration amendments.
Dr. Collier has managed and maintained the
scientific aspects of data compensation strategies, negotiated data
compensation agreements, and directed registration data development to
protect and enhance the value of the company’s data assets. He developed
a framework for protection of the intellectual property rights of
manufacturers of inert ingredients of pesticide formulations that was
adopted as the position of the Chemical Producers and Distributors
Association on implementing amendments to the Federal Food, Drug and
Cosmetic Act.
As Chair of their Administrative Committees for
three years, he led the $28+ million, industry-wide Agricultural Re-entry
Task Force and Outdoor Residential Exposure Task Force to satisfy the EPA
requirements for data on exposure of agricultural workers and homeowners
to pesticides. He has also served on four industry-wide and three
product-specific task forces, various committees and work groups of the
Chemical Producers and Distributors Association and CropLife America, and
guided the activity of other associates in these and other task forces and
trade associations.
Dr. Collier brings to LANDIS a wealth of
information systems experience, having served as the founder and director
of Purdue University’s Center for Environmental and Regulatory Information
Systems (CERIS) and its National Pesticide Information Retrieval System (NPIRS).
Prior to the development of the NPIRS, he developed the Purdue Pesticide
Information Retrieval System to meet the pesticide information needs of
the State Chemist Office and Extension specialists.
Dr. Collier earned his
Ph.D. in Biochemistry from Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, in
1972. He also earned his B.S. in Chemistry from Samford University,
Birmingham, Alabama, in 1967.
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