Andrew Walsh

Andrew Walsh

President

Center for Pharmaceutical Cleaning Innovation (CPCI™)

Andrew Walsh is President of the Center for Pharmaceutical Cleaning Innovation (CPCI™) a not-for-profit research and educational organization and laboratory whose purpose is to support companies in the implementation of new ASTM Pharmaceutical Cleaning Standards. CPCI™ supports companies through research into new technologies (2 patents), educational offerings and internship opportunities for students. Andrew teaches a week long “hands-on” Cleaning SME class at CPCI™ and published a 400+ page textbook “Cleaning Validation: Science, Risk and Statistics-based Approaches” in 2022 to accompany the course.

Andrew has taught Cleaning Validation at the Temple University School of Pharmacy Regulatory Affairs and Quality Assurance Program since 2019. Andrew was also an Industry Professor from 2008 – 2015 in the Pharmaceutical Manufacturing and Engineering Graduate Program at Stevens Institute of Technology where he created and taught courses in Pharmaceutical Validation and Lean Six Sigma. While at Stevens, Andrew also founded and directed the Stevens Pharmaceutical Research Center (SPRC) from 2009 – 2015 which focused on Cleaning and Cleaning Validation topics.

Andrew is very active in developing industry consensus standards with ASTM International and has led teams that have written 9 Pharmaceutical cleaning standards.
Andrew has an M.S. in Biology (Microbiology) and is a certified Lean Six Sigma Black Belt and an Accredited Trainer.