Our People

Created from the ground up by veteran industry experts

Whether we’re talking about an analytical technician or a senior scientist, our people are industry veterans with the necessary skills to hit the ground running from their first day on the job. Every member of the AIT Bioscience team has extensive practical experience in CRO and pharmaceutical testing that includes bioanalytical instrumentation and development, drug safety, method development and validation, troubleshooting, and quality assurance. They are also well educated in regulatory guidelines set forth on GLP by the OECD and FDA and very experienced in the auditing process as conducted by customers and agencies alike.

Ronald Shoup, Ph.D. 
Executive Director 
E-mail: rshoup@aitbioscience.com

Ron Shoup, Ph.D. has served as executive director of AIT Bioscience since September 2008. Shoup comes to AIT after most recently serving as chief scientific officer at Bioanalytical Systems, Inc. (BASi) in West Lafayette, Ind., where he served in various capacities, including fourteen years on its board of directors. Shoup’s leadership, entrepreneurship, and scientific expertise stem from more than twenty-eight years in bioanalytical instrumentation and contract research organization development. Shoup spent the past fifteen years at BASi building a contract research facility that offered services including drug safety testing, bioanalytical sample analysis, analytical chemistry for GMP-stability studies, and Phase I human clinical trials.

Shoup earned bachelor’s degrees in chemistry and mathematics with highest distinction and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Ind. While initially pursuing his doctorate at Michigan State University, he was awarded a special first-year fellowship. He completed his Ph.D. at Purdue and was named an outstanding alumnus in 2006 by the Purdue University Department of Chemistry. Shoup maintains memberships with the American Society for Mass Spectrometry and the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists.

Timothy Grever
Laboratory Director
E-mail: tgrever@aitbioscience.com

Timothy Grever has served as laboratory director for AIT Bioscience since January 2009. Grever comes to AIT Bioscience from Bioanalytical Systems, Inc. (BASi) in West Lafayette, Ind., where he rose through the ranks over ten years of service from a project manager to become director of bioanalytical operations, leading a 54-member bioanalytical team. His responsibilities included the management and oversight of more than three hundred projects led by teams of senior scientists, analysts, laboratory technicians, and quality assurance personnel. Grever’s diverse experience includes multiple successful FDA GLP audits, conversion of old laboratory technologies to 96-well automated platforms, and non-routine repair of analytical instruments.

Grever possesses more than nineteen years of bioanalytical science experience including laboratory method development, validation, and troubleshooting analytical methods supporting regulatory (FDA and EPA) submissions. Prior to his tenure at BASi, Grever served ten years as the project manager and principal investigator of the environmental division at A&L Great Lakes Laboratories, Inc. in Fort Wayne, Ind.

Grever holds a bachelor’s degree in biology from Purdue University in West Lafayette, Ind. He is a member of the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists, the American Society of Mass Spectrometry, and the American Chemical Society.

Brian Beato, Ph.D.
Senior Scientist, Mass Spectrometry
E-mail: bbeato@aitbioscience.com

Brian Beato, Ph.D. has served as senior scientist, mass spectrometry since January 2009. Prior to joining AIT Bioscience, Beato served as laboratory and technical manager for Covance Bioanalytical Services in Indianapolis, Ind., where he assisted in the development and expansion of a bioanalytical LC/MS/MS laboratory. During his time at Covance, Beato also led Six Sigma projects focused on improving the efficiency and success of LC/MS/MS methods used in production.  Prior to this, Beato assisted with the start-up of a similar bioanalytical lab within Bioanalytical Systems, Inc. (BASi) in West Lafayette, Ind. as director of mass spectrometry.

Beato possesses more than eighteen years of experience in quantitative pharmaceutical analysis and method development, the majority in bioanalytical LC/MS/MS. He holds a bachelor’s degree in chemistry from The Ohio State University and a Ph.D. in analytical chemistry from the University of Florida.

Laurel Branstrator
Director of Quality Assurance - GxP
E-mail: lbranstrator@aitlabs.com

Laurel Branstrator has served as director of quality assurance - GxP for AIT Bioscience since February 2009. Branstrator is a seasoned professional who brings a wealth of expertise specifically related to analytical and bioanalytical sample analysis for non-clinical and clinical regulatory submission to both AIT Bioscience and AIT Laboratories. Branstrator comes to AIT from Bioanalytical Systems, Inc. (BASi) of West Lafayette, Ind., where she rose through the ranks during her 16-year tenure to senior director of quality assurance.

In addition to her career with BASi, Branstrator provided quality consulting to the drug discovery industry through her private consulting firm, LEB Consulting Services. As senior director of quality assurance at BASi, Branstrator acted as part of the front-line management team, reporting directly to the chief executive officer as the highest ranking management representative for quality. In this role, she managed a multi-site, diverse unit of auditors, archivists, and support personnel, supervised all internal and external audits by BASi and its clients, and was the principal representative for FDA inspections. Branstrator also oversaw the administration of corporate archives and the laboratory’s electronic document management system, which served as the central repository for all analytical methods, standard operating procedures, and reports.