Ming Soon Cheng

Associate Director (Attribute Sciences Lead)

Singapore

About

Experience

  • Amgen (8 yrs 8 mos)
    • Associate Director (Attribute Sciences Lead)
      Apr 2024 - Present · 2 yrs 3 mos

      - Lead Process Development - Commercial Attribute Sciences organization at Amgen Singapore Manufacturing. - Strategic planning and technical oversight of analytical testing and forensic analyses. - Drive product attribute understanding and support for commercial and clinical biological and synthetic drugs' campaigns. - Collaborate with partners from different functions at site and global levels.

    • Principal Scientist
      May 2021 - Mar 2024 · 2 yrs 11 mos

      - Manage a team of associate scientists. - Product stewardship lead (analytics) of a biosimilar program: lead global method transfer, regulatory submission, audit, etc. - Member of site extended leadership team. - Provide technical support for raw material, in-process, release and stability testing of biological and synthetic drugs. - Provide technical support for the investigation of problems related to product attribute, analytical testing and manufacturing process. - Involved in method development, qualification, improvement and transfer. - Set up laboratory and analytical testing capability in Process Development team. - Appointed as the safety risk assessment team leader, safety committee and compliance team member. - Experienced in HPLC/UPLC (AEX, CEX, SEC, ALC, HILIC Glycan, RPLC, HIC, FIA), LCMS, headspace GC-FID, UV-Vis spectrometer, reduced and non-reduced CE-SDS, cIEF, PCR, ELISA. - Experienced in Empower and Chromeleon CDS.

    • Senior Scientist
      May 2020 - Apr 2021 · 1 yr

  • Chemist at Novartis
    Feb 2015 - Nov 2017 · 2 yrs 10 mos

  • Quality Assurance Analyst at Leung Kai Fook Medical Co Pte Ltd
    Mar 2014 - Feb 2015 · 1 yr

  • Research Assistant at National University of Singapore
    Jun 2010 - Aug 2010 · 3 mos