Dr Anne Tolstrup | Head of Cell Culture II, Process Sciences, Biopharma
Boehringer Ingelheim GmbH & Co. KG

Dr. Anne Tolstrup joined Boehringer-Ingelheim Biopharma in 2011 where she holds the position as Director for Cell Culture II in the Process Science department. Here, her group is dealing with all aspects of mammalian cell line development for manufacturing of therapeutic proteins, from vector construction over stable cell line generation to the upstream process. She obtained her PhD in Molecular and Cell Biology in 1994 from the University of Aarhus, Denmark. Following her studies she worked in the Danish biotech industry, early on as a hands-on Scientist and for the last 14 years in different Project Manager and Department Director positions. Her focus has always been on mammalian cell culture and expression technology. Latest, she spent 8 years at Symphogen A/S developing an expression technology for single-batch manufacturing of recombinant antibody mixtures. Dr Tolstrup holds the title of Adjunct Professor at the Danish Technical University, Systems Biology.