Contributors
The people who write and check the Journal: an editor-in-chief, a standards editor, a two-person fact-checking desk, staff writers, and contributing correspondents in eleven cities. Nobody in these pages accepts speaking fees or consultancy from a manufacturer, pharmacy, testing laboratory or vendor — that restriction is set out in full on our standards page.
32 contributors · 5,100 bylined pieces
Editors and the desk
8Editor-in-Chief
Inés Abernathy founded The Compound Journal in January 2024 after eleven years covering pharmaceutical manufacturing and generic-drug supply for two…
372 pieces · since Jan 2024
Standards Editor
Desmond Oyelaran is the Journal’s standards editor. He owns the corrections log, the sourcing rules, and the internal argument every piece has to…
65 pieces · since Jan 2024
Deputy Editor, Science
Marguerite Vasseur ran a receptor-pharmacology bench for six years — GPCR trafficking, mostly, with a two-year detour into biased agonism at the…
182 pieces · since Jan 2024
Supply Chain Editor
Noor Haddadin traces peptides backwards: from the vial to the packager, the packager to the synthesis house, the synthesis house to the resin and…
643 pieces · since Mar 2024
Data Editor
Harriet Oduya builds the Journal’s datasets and checks its arithmetic. She is the reason the Journal reports both the treatment-policy and…
192 pieces · since Apr 2024
Senior Fact Checker
Jonas Arvelo runs the fact-checking desk with Wren Kealoha. Every number, name, date, dose and citation in a feature passes across his screen…
116 pieces · since Feb 2024
Fact Checker
Wren Kealoha checks the Journal’s analytics and laboratory coverage: chromatograms against the stated method, mass differences against the claimed…
63 pieces · since Jun 2024
Staff Writer, Letters
Tamsin Okonjo edits the letters column. Roughly a thousand readers write to the Journal each month; she reads all of them, prints a fraction, and…
37 pieces · since Jun 2024
Staff writers
8Regulatory Reporter
Teodor Lindqvist covers the regulatory picture: compounding law, shortage declarations, import enforcement, the difference between a 503A pharmacy…
120 pieces · since Jan 2024
Senior Writer, Clinical Trials
Anneke van der Molen reads trials for a living and has strong views about the ones people quote without reading. She covers STEP, SURMOUNT, SURPASS,…
148 pieces · since Feb 2024
Senior Writer, Manufacturing
Roshan Devakumar covers synthesis and scale: solid-phase versus hybrid routes, coupling reagents, the economics of a 40-mer, and why the same…
227 pieces · since Apr 2024
Staff Writer
Salomé Adeyemi covers the body-composition question: what happens to lean mass on a rapid weight-loss trajectory, what the protein and…
243 pieces · since May 2024
Staff Writer
Evander Sittig covers freight, customs and the grey channel: how a parcel moves, where it stops, what a declaration says, and what the seizure…
248 pieces · since Jul 2024
Staff Writer, Pharmacology
Yuki Morishita writes about exposure: half-lives, accumulation, steady state, albumin binding, why a once-weekly molecule behaves the way it does,…
142 pieces · since Aug 2024
Staff Writer, Analytics
Orla McCaffrey covers the independent testing services — Janoshik, Medutest, PeptideMeter and VendorInvestigate — as institutions: what each one…
107 pieces · since Sep 2024
Staff Writer, Regulation
Sofiane Belkacem covers cross-border regulation: what a personal-importation allowance actually permits, how "research use only" is treated in…
138 pieces · since Apr 2025
Contributing writers and correspondents
16Analytical Chemistry Correspondent
Callum Brathwaite spent fourteen years in contract analytical laboratories, the last six running a peptide method-development group: reversed-phase…
134 pieces · since Feb 2024
Pharmacy Columnist
Priya Ramanathan is an ambulatory-care pharmacist who has run titration clinics for incretin therapy since 2021 and has personally counselled…
131 pieces · since Feb 2024
International Correspondent, Latin America
Aurelio Sanmartín reports on access, pricing and regulation across Latin America — the region where the gap between a drug being approved and a drug…
125 pieces · since May 2024
International Correspondent, East Asia
Mei-Lin Tsou covers manufacturing and trade across East Asia: who is building capacity, who is buying protected amino acids by the tonne, and which…
80 pieces · since May 2024
International Correspondent, Europe
Sunniva Ørstavik covers European reimbursement: which countries pay, at what price, under what restriction, and how quickly a national formulary…
237 pieces · since Aug 2024
Patient Voice Columnist
Gabriel Ntonga writes the patient-voice column. He started on a compounded semaglutide in 2022, moved to a branded tirzepatide when his insurer…
34 pieces · since Mar 2024
Cold Chain Correspondent
Lucía Berenguer covers stability and cold chain: lyophilised versus solution, mean kinetic temperature, what actually happens to a peptide in a…
356 pieces · since Jul 2024
Contributing Writer, Analytics
Félix Oyarzún writes about identity confirmation: high-resolution mass spectrometry, isotope patterns, the difference between a mass that matches…
134 pieces · since Sep 2024
Contributing Writer, Access & Insurance
Imogen Thackeray covers coverage: prior authorisation, step therapy, formulary exclusion lists, appeal timelines, and the arithmetic of a cash-pay…
61 pieces · since Jun 2024
Contributing Writer, Regulation
Bertrand Kowalczyk inspected pharmacies for a state board for seven years before moving to writing about them. He covers enforcement: what an…
70 pieces · since Oct 2024
Contributing Writer, Sterility
Nikolaj Brandvold spent eight years in a sterile-products quality-control laboratory. He covers bioburden, endotoxin, container closure integrity…
123 pieces · since Nov 2024
Contributing Writer, Laboratory Medicine
Perpetua Nwachukwu is a chemical pathologist. She writes the Journal’s bloodwork coverage: what a panel measures, what a reference interval is, what…
73 pieces · since Jan 2025
Contributing Writer, Economics
Ruslan Yevtushenko models the cost stack: API, fill-finish, packaging, cold freight, customs, payment processing, and the margin at each step. He…
258 pieces · since Feb 2025
Contributing Writer, Explainers
Delphine Ruzek writes the Journal’s ground-floor explainers: the ones that assume the reader has heard a drug name on the radio and nothing else.
121 pieces · since Mar 2025
Contributing Writer, The Back Page
Ambrose Fenwick writes the essay that closes each issue. He worked in a hospital pharmacy for eleven years and writes about the culture of medicines…
0 pieces · since Apr 2024
Contributing Writer, Injection Practice
Héctor Valmorida is a nurse and diabetes educator who has taught injection technique for fifteen years. He covers the mechanics: needle length, site…
192 pieces · since May 2025