Alfred Berchielli

Alfred Berchielli Senior Principal Scientist, Pfizer Inc Groton, CT 06340 alfred.berchielli@pfizer.com Al Berchielli has been working in the Drug Product Design group at Pfizer for the last twenty-five years as a Formulator and previously worked in the Formulation group at Wyeth/Lederle Labs for 5 years. Al’s areas of expertise include design and scale-up of immediate release and extended release drug delivery systems (e.g., sustained release osmotic and matrix tablets). His research interests include IR/CR combinations, spray application of active ingredients in tablet coatings, controlled release functional coatings, and modeling of coating processes. Al received his M.S. in Industrial Pharmacy from the Arnold and Marie Schwartz School of Pharmacy at Long Island University, New York, and his B.S. in Chemistry from the State University of New York College at Cortland. Al has several published patents / papers in the area of sustained release and tablet coating process modeling.