Mr Karsten Roth | Head Clinical Operation
Cinfa Biotech GmbH

Karsten Roth is Director of Clinical Operations at Cinfa Biotech, leads all of Cinfa Biotech’s clinical development programs. He is responsible for the development and implementation of preclinical, clinical and post-approval activities.. He has more than 20 years of experience in the pharmaceutical industry having held various executive positions with a strong focus on clinical development across several therapeutic areas. He worked at big pharmaceutical companies in Europe like Astellas, Novartis Pharma and recently Sandoz Biopharmaceuticals in several global functions before taking up a new opportunity at Cinfa Biotech. In his current function, he is a member of the executive board and responsible for the clinical development and operational oversight of pre-clinical, clinical and post approval activities. In his role he is supervising the clinical operations teams including internal and external stakeholders. Within his function, he plays an active part in due diligence processes and long term strategic planning. In addition he is a member of international advocacy groups and presented at several scientific advice meetings at the EMA, FDA and PMDA.
Karsten holds a PhD in biochemistry, a postgraduate degree in pharmaceutical medicine and a Masters in project management from the George Washington University.