
Celine Cheng is a registered pharmacist in both Hong Kong and the United Kingdom and a registered AP in Hong Kong. She earned her Ph.D. in neuropharmacology in 1990 and served as a post-doctoral research fellow in charge of 3 research laboratories, all at the University of Bradford. Upon return to Hong Kong in 1995, she was invited to join a local pharmaceutical manufacturer to assist them to set up the quality assurance system and to obtain GMP certification. As team leader, she was instrumental in designing the first Hong Kong custom-built 4 storey pharmaceutical manufacturing facility, which obtained GMP certification 2 years ahead of schedule. As President of the Hong Kong Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association since 2008, she has worked tirelessly in raising the GMP standards with respect to qualification and validation requirements in the local pharmaceutical manufacturing industry. She was one of the members in the Drug Review Committee on Regulation of Pharmaceutical Products in Hong Kong and involved in setting up the 75 recommendations including the PIC/S GMP standard. She has over 20 years of hands-on experience in sterile and non-sterile manufacturing, quality assurance and GMP specializing in quality management system reengineering for pharmaceutical and biological products. She now works as Chief Compliance & Technology Officer for the Jacobson Pharma Group.