From The Editor | July 16, 2026

First Advisors In: Meet Clinical Supply Leader's Inaugural Board Members

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By Rachel Grabenhofer, Chief Editor, Clinical Supply Leader

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Editorial Advisory Board members will guide the content and initiatives we develop, identify emerging issues and opportunities, and ensure our content reflects the priorities and challenges facing our highly specialized field.

Clinical supply is impacted by countless decisions, dependencies, and tradeoffs. Understanding the downstream effects of those dynamics requires viewpoints from across the clinical supply landscape. Those perspectives are at the heart of Clinical Supply Leader's Editorial Advisory Board — a group of accomplished professionals who have spent their careers navigating these complexities firsthand.

Please join us in welcoming:

  • Ajay Shah, Director, Clinical Drug Supply Management, AbbVie
  • Ana-Zeralda Canals Hamann, Ph.D., Associate Director, Clinical Trial Supplies, Debiopharm
  • Brian Furmanski, Ph.D., Chief Development/Regulatory Officer, Kriya Therapeutics
  • Craig Mooney, Founder & Principal Consultant, IRT Advisors Group
  • Dennis Royal, Senior Director, Supply Chain Operations, Nkarta, Inc.
  • Eugene Suh, PharmD, Co-Founder and Managing Principal, LTD Consulting
  • Nigel Cryer, Pharmaceutical Quality & Regulatory Executive and Industry Advisor

Representing pharmaceutical sponsors, consulting organizations, and academia, these advisors bring knowledge from across the clinical supply continuum — from end-to-end supply chain operations, planning, forecasting, and logistics to quality, regulatory affairs, clinical technology, and strategic leadership.

Together with Chief Editor Rachel Grabenhofer and Executive Editor Elizabeth Urbanek, the board will identify emerging issues, explore evolving industry dynamics, and deepen our understanding of the clinical supply system and the forces affecting it.

Our goal isn't simply to cover clinical supply topics. It's to uncover the realities, relationships, and decisions that shape the clinical supply system every day. The insights of our Editorial Advisory Board will bring greater clarity to those interconnected dynamics and deepen the conversations that matter most to the clinical supply community.

This inaugural group marks the first step in establishing Clinical Supply Leader as a leading voice, destination, and community for clinical supply professionals. As ambassadors for Clinical Supply Leader, Editorial Advisory Board members will guide the content and initiatives we develop, identify emerging issues and opportunities, and ensure our content reflects the priorities and challenges facing our highly specialized field.

We encourage clinical supply professionals who are passionate about sharing their knowledge, advancing our mission, and contributing to the Clinical Supply Leader community to connect with Chief Editor Rachel Grabenhofer to learn about advisory board opportunities at: rachel.grabenhofer@lifescienceconnect.com or through linkedin.com/in/rgrabenhofer.