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Karen L'Empereur, Ph.D., acts as Laboratory Manager and Study Director, the CPS analytical lab Karen oversaw the launch of the laboratory as a GLP facility in March 2006. Due to her direct oversight of the laboratory’s daily operations the analytical lab has steadily grown its business and has expanded from its original location.
Karen has broad experience in trace level method development and quantitative analysis, including over a decade as a project manager and senior research scientist. Karen developed and validated numerous LC and GC analytical methods in various toxicological matrices during her post-doctoral work at DuPont's Haskell Laboratory for Toxicological Studies. She also supervised the resources and planning for a 20-person analytical team.
Karen's project management skills grew at DuPont Crop Protection while she was administrator of several analytical laboratories conducting a multi-year, large-scale groundwater study. She also acted as study director on multiple, remote, magnitude of residue studies and developed analytical methods using size exclusion chromatography in animal tissues.
Karen worked in forensic analytical chemistry before joining Critical Path Services. She assisted a qualified laboratory with its successful accreditation for its participation in the identification and analysis of chemical warfare weapons as governed by the Organization of Prohibition of Chemical Weapons. Karen was responsible for direct oversight of chemical warfare agent research projects including customer interaction, study design and processes, and determination / reconciliation of cost, timing, and deliverables.
In general, since joining CPS, Karen's responsibilities have included writing or oversight of technical pieces containing analytical methods or data for such pieces. These reports include MOR studies, IR-4, and analytical residue method in soil, and conversion of pharmaceutical DMF to the CTD format.
Since joining CPS, Karen has acted as a technical consultant/coordinator for the analytical branch of a multinational, four company consortium. This position required oversight of several contract facilities as they developed multiple analytical methods in support of environmental fate and biodegradation studies necessary to determine the safety of a major product. The task also required interaction with the chemists of the consortium as well as EPA administration and EPA scientists on behalf of the consortium to update all on the conduct and progress of the analytical pieces.
Karen completed her doctoral work in analytical / natural products chemistry at Colorado State University.
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