Dr.Tim Sandle is a chartered biologist and holds a first class honours degree in Applied Biology; a Masters degree in education; and has a doctorate from Keele University.
Dr.
Sandle has over twenty-five years experience of microbiological research, quality assurance, and
biopharmaceutical processing. This includes experience of designing, validating
and operating a range of microbiological tests including sterility testing, bacterial
endotoxin testing, bioburden and microbial enumeration, environmental
monitoring, particle counting and water testing. In addition, Dr. Sandle is
experienced in contamination control, sterility assurance, quality risk assessment, GxP compliance, root cause analysis, and investigation.
Dr.
Sandle is a tutor with the School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences,
University of Manchester for the university’s pharmaceutical microbiology MSc
course, and at University College, London. In addition, Dr. Sandle has served on several national and international
committees relating to pharmaceutical microbiology and cleanroom contamination
control (including the ISO cleanroom standards and the National Blood Service advisory cleaning and disinfection committee). He is a long-standing committee member of
the Pharmaceutical Microbiology Interest Group (Pharmig); and is a member of several editorials
boards for a range of scientific journals.
Dr.
Sandle acts as a consultant, expert witness and technical adviser to
sterile and non-sterile manufacturing facilities, microbiology laboratories, the
medical device industry and hospitals. Dr. Sandle has also undertaken many technical writing and review projects.
Dr. Sandle has written over eight hundred book chapters, peer reviewed papers and technical articles relating to microbiology and pharmaceuticals. In addition, Dr. Sandle has written or edited over thirty books including: "Sterility Testing of Pharmaceutical Products", "Risk Management and Risk Assessment for Pharmaceutical Manufacturing: A contamination control perspective" and "Sterility, Sterilisation and Sterility Assurance for Pharmaceuticals: Technology, Validation and Current Regulations". Dr. Sandle has also edited the book "The CDC Handbook: A Guide to Cleaning and Disinfecting Cleanrooms"; and co-editing the comprehensive books "Microbiology and Sterility Assurance in Pharmaceuticals and Medical Devices" and "Cleanroom Management in Pharmaceuticals and
Healthcare". Dr. Sandle has also delivered papers to over 250 international conferences.
Tim's personal wenpage is: www.timsandle.com
Awards
Dr. Sandle has received the following awards:
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Awards
Dr. Sandle has received the following awards:
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Winner of the Journal of GXP
Compliance®
- George Sykes memorial award, issued by the Parenteral and Healthcare Sciences Society (PHSS), for the top science paper of the year, 2012 and 2021
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Pharmig award for
'Excellence in Pharmaceutical Microbiology'. The inaugural lifetime achievement award, issued at
the November 2013 Pharmig
annual conference, Oxford, UK (Pharmig in the Pharmaceutical
Microbiology Interest Group), 2013
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PDA
Distinguished Author Award, issued at PDA Annual Meeting, San Antonio,
Texas, March 2016
IVT Author of the Year Award 2016, 2017 and 2019 - Kenneth G. Chapman Award. Services to pharmaceutical validation. Awarded by the Institute of Validation Technology - 2018
- IVT Lifetime Achievement Award for services to validation and compliance - 2020
- John Sharp memorial award,
issued by the Pharmaceutical and Healthcare Sciences
Society (PHSS), for the top science paper of the year, 2020 and 2022
To contact Tim Sandle, please email. For more about Tim Sandle and his projects, see the website 'Tim Sandle'.
Citation indexes
- Tim Sandle on Google Scholar
- Tim Sandle on Research Gate
- Tim Sandle at Academia.edu
- Tim Sandle on ORCiD here: ORCiD
- Tim Sandle on Scopus.
- Tim Sandle on Kudos
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Tim Sandle on Thompson Reuters: ResearcherID: D-4572-2015
Interviews with Tim Sandle (selected)
- Feature: Tim Sandle on Science Advisory Board
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An interview with Tim Sandle, conducted by Pharmaceutical
Bioprocessing (http://www.future-science.com/doi/pdf/10.4155/pbp.13.64):
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Sandle,
T. (2014). Pharmaceutical Microbiology, Pharmecutical
Bioprocessing; 2(1): 17–21
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Interview with Tim Sandle for Microbiology Today by Saumyadip
Sarkar: Sakar, S. (2014) Portrait - an interview with Dr. Tim Sandle, Micrographia Today, 1 (2): 16-20, see: http://www.wethemicrobiologist.in/uploads/9/4/5/2/9452624/06._magazine_feb_-_mar_1.pdf
- Rapid Microbial Methods: A Q&A with Dr. Tim Sandle (Rapid Micro BioSystems, 2014), see: https://www.rapidmicrobio.com/blog/rapid-microbial-methods-a-qa-with-dr.-tim-sandle
- Interview with Microbioz India, April 2015 at: http://www.microbiozindia.com/business-news/an-interview-with-dr-tim-sandle.htm#sthash.NNRYuVnD.dpbs
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Meet
the IVT Board: Tim Sandle, (Institute of Validation Technology, 2017) interview
at: http://www.ivtnetwork.com/article/meet-ivt-board-tim-sandle
- Interview with Digital Journal, by Markos Papadotos “Dr. Tim Sandle discusses career as a scientist and journalist”, (2018) at: http://www.digitaljournal.com/tech-and-science/science/dr-tim-sandle-discusses-career-as-a-scientist-and-journalist/article/514692
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Artificial Intelligence to Improve Cancer Diagnosis in NHS – Interview
with Tim Sandle, microbiologist (2018), see: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/325402241_Artificial_Intelligense_to_Improve_Cancer_Diagnosis_in_NHS_-_Microbiologist
- Interview with the Microbiology Society (2019), see: https://microbiologysociety.org/membership/meet-our-members/an-interview-with-dr-tim-sandle.html
- Annex 1 and sterilization process: an interview with Tim Sandle, AIM Instruments, 6th June 2022, at: https://global.aminstruments.com/sterilization-annex1-tim-sandle/
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