As Director Scientific Affairs, Integrated Systems, at West Pharmaceutical Services, Dr. Bettine Boltres supports scientific exchange between West and the pharmaceutical industry. This is complementing her past work as Product Manager for Schott Pharmaceutical Tubing, where she provided scientific consulting for glass primary packaging.

Bettine is an active member of the USP Packaging and Distribution Expert Committee, the European Pharmacopoeia Commission Group of Experts 16 (elastomers and plastics) and the GLS Working Party (glass). She is a member of ISO Working Group 4 (Elastomers) and Working Group 2 (glass). Additionally, Bettine is on the PDA Board of Directors and in 2015 she published the book “When Glass Meets Pharma”, which builds the bridge between glass for pharmaceutical primary packaging and drug substances.

Dr. Boltres is a (bio)chemist by training, receiving a diploma in chemistry from the university of Frankfurt, Germany and a PhD in biochemistry from the university of Cologne, Germany.