Frank A. Anthony, Ph.D. is the Owner & President of Consumer Science Solutions, LLC, specializing in scientific, clinical, consumer science, claims, and medical affairs consulting for OTC Products. Frank believes that successful products are the innovative combination of formula + package + claims, requiring a blend of both science and art. He has leveraged his years of scientific skill and creativity as a musician to drive ideas into innovations that successfully translate science into meaningful claims for consumers.
Prior to starting Consumer Science Solutions, LLC, Frank was the Global Director of the Claims Centre of Excellence for Bayer Consumer Health. He has worked in the OTC industry for over 30 years at Bayer, Merck, and Schering-Plough and more recently consulted for companies such as Coca-Cola, Sanofi, and Arcadia Consumer Health. His claims expertise covers brands such as Aleve®, Afrin®, Alka-Seltzer®, Bayer® Aspirin, Berocca®, Claritin®, Coppertone®, Dr. Scholl’s®, Elevit®, Kaopectate®, MiraLAX®, Nizoral®, and One-a-Day®. Frank’s experience includes basic and applied research, product safety, clinical research, consumer research, and claims approvals and defense, impacting products in US, Canada, Brazil, Europe, Asia and Russia.
Frank has over 30 scientific publications/abstracts and 4 patents, and has received numerous scientific achievements and leader behavior awards. He holds a PhD in Chemistry from Texas Christian University with an emphasis in Neurochemistry and completed his post-doctoral training at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis, TN.
