Session: How to identify and select the right suppliers as a part of your PMTA and what to do if you need to change suppliers along the way.

Speakers: – Mike Bond of Labstat – Bonnie Coffa of Chemular

Date: January 30th, 2024 – Las Vegas,NV

Bonnie G. Coffa, PhD, DABT

Regulatory Toxicology Consultant – Chemular / Scientific Director Toxicology – Labstat Consultant

Bonnie is a Regulatory Toxicologist at Chemular specializing in ingredient and product risk assessments, in vitro regulatory assays for product stewardship testing, and regulatory applications for tobacco-, nicotine- and cannabinoid-containing products. She is also a consultant for Labstat in the role of Scientific Director Toxicology.

She has over a decade of experience in tobacco and nicotine regulatory testing, FDA applications and scientific communication. Bonnie has been a consultant for the past 5 years and previously was the Business Development Manager at Enthalpy Analytical, a nicotine and cannabis contract testing laboratory. Prior to that role, Bonnie was a Principal Scientist at Altria Client Services, where she managed e-vapor in vitro toxicology testing, authored non-clinical sections of Premarket Tobacco Product Applications and literature reviews on several topics including health effects of nicotine, potential reinforcing effects of tobacco minor alkaloids, very low nicotine and non-clinical toxicology of nicotine containing products.

Bonnie received her PhD in Pharmacology from Vanderbilt University, where she studied the involvement of dopamine systems in neuropsychiatric disorders, including schizophrenia and Parkinson’s Disease using a variety of approaches, ranging from neuroanatomical to pharmacological. She completed postdoctoral training in tobacco regulatory science at Altria Client Services.