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Knowledge Management as a Pharmaceutical Quality System Enabler: How Enhanced Knowledge Transfer Can Help Close the ICH Q10 to ICH Q12 Gap

Martin J. Lipa, Anne Greene and Nuala Calnan
PDA Journal of Pharmaceutical Science and Technology January 2021, 75 (1) 64-90; DOI: https://doi.org/10.5731/pdajpst.2020.011825
Martin J. Lipa
1Merck & Co., Inc., 770 Sumneytown Pike, West Point, PA 19486; and
2School of Chemical and Pharmaceutical Sciences, TU Dublin—City Campus, Kevin Street, Dublin 8, Ireland
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2School of Chemical and Pharmaceutical Sciences, TU Dublin—City Campus, Kevin Street, Dublin 8, Ireland
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2School of Chemical and Pharmaceutical Sciences, TU Dublin—City Campus, Kevin Street, Dublin 8, Ireland
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