Rose Gonzales is Director of Compound Management & Distribution (CMD) at Pfizer Worldwide Research & Development, based in Groton, CT. She has been at Pfizer for 17 years, the last 7 in her current role overseeing the compound collection of Pfizer. Rose has undergraduate and graduate degrees in Chemicial Engineering; her PhD thesis was in the area of cell adhesion under low shear stress conditions. Previous to her current role, she headed up Analytical Chemistry in Worldwide Medicinal Chemistry, and led laboratory automation groups in Groton and Ann Arbor, MI that supported different discovery technologies such as high throughput screening, structural biology, cell and protein production, and analytical chemistry . Prior to Pfizer, Rose did HTS at Merck, a postdoc in Inflammation Biology at Pharmacia & Upjohn, and product development at Procter & Gamble.