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Jaap Venema

Executive Vice President & Chief Science Officer
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Jaap Venema, Ph.D., is Executive Vice President and Chief Science Officer (CSO) for USP. He leads USP’s scientific and standards-setting activities around the world. He also serves as Chair of the Council of Experts, USP's scientific standards-setting body, which continuously revises standards in the United States Pharmacopeia–National Formulary, USP Compounding Compendium, Herbal Medicines Compendium, Dietary Supplements Compendium, and Food Chemicals Codex.

Dr. Venema brings a combination of global research and drug development experience spanning more than twenty-five years to USP’s top scientific post. Prior to joining USP, Dr. Venema served in a variety of scientific leadership positions at AbbVie (formerly Abbott Laboratories). Most recently, he was Therapeutic Area Lead Biotherapeutics, Global Medical Affairs, Biologics Strategic Development, where he developed and implemented a global scientific and medical strategy for biotherapeutics across all therapeutic areas, including biosimilars and immunogenicity. In this post, he served as an invited speaker and panelist at numerous conferences on scientific and policy issues related to biologics. Dr. Venema has also worked extensively on vaccines, target biology, clinical development, and bioinformatics while holding various leadership roles at Solvay Pharmaceuticals in the Netherlands. Before his transition to industry, Dr. Venema was a post-doctoral fellow at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in Heidelberg, Germany, and a Fellow of the Netherlands Academy of Sciences at the Free University of Amsterdam.

A native of the Netherlands, Dr. Venema earned his Master’s degree in Chemistry from the Free University of Amsterdam, and his Ph.D. in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from Leiden University in the Netherlands.

Medicines
 // August 07, 2023

Pharmaceutical community eyeing FDA guidance on nitrosamines with great interest

Nitrosamines are naturally occurring chemical compounds that people are regularly exposed to at l

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Healthcare
 // October 31, 2022

Updated Compounding Standards Help Advance Quality and Support Patient Safety

Quality should be built into the entire drug product lifecycle – including the manufacturing and

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Jaap Venema
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USP Leadership
 // June 07, 2022

Volunteer Spotlight: USP Beal Award winner shares perspective on making a difference for public health

This spring, long-time USP volunteer Dennis Gorecki, Ph.D., became the latest recipient of USP’s

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Dennis Gorecki, Ph.D.
USP Leadership
 // April 21, 2022

USP volunteering in the spotlight: Tackling critical public health needs

How does a 200-year-old standards-setting institution remain an essential part of ensuring access

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