We have a great variety of speakers sharing their knowledge with us in February. Stay tuned to find out who else will be speaking at next year's event!
Dr Simone Albrecht, Senior Postdoctoral Research Scientist, N.I.B.R.T
Simone Albrecht is Senior Postdoctoral Research Scientist at the National Institute for Bioprocessing Research and Training (NIBRT) in Dublin where she is member of the “Characterisation and Comparability Laboratory” led by Dr Jonathan Bones. Her current research focuses on the development and...
Dr Simone Albrecht, Senior Postdoctoral Research Scientist, N.I.B.R.T
Dr Mark Angelino, Senior Vice President, Pharmaceutical Sciences, bluebird bio
Dr. Angelino is SVP of Pharmaceutical Sciences at bluebird bio. He manages the development, analytical development/QC, and clinical manufacturing functions for both our lentiviral vector materials and autologous drug products. He was most recently at Baxter Healthcare for which he led their...
Dr Mark Angelino, Senior Vice President, Pharmaceutical Sciences, bluebird bio
Prof. Tudor Arvinte, President and Chief Executive Officer, Therapeomic Inc
Tudor Arvinte studied physics at University of Jassy, Romania, and received his Ph.D. in biophysicsfrom University of Düsseldorf, Germany. He held numerous research positions in Europe and theUSA at: Max-Planck Institute, Germany; C.N.R.S., France; Cornell University, New York; TexasA&M...
Prof. Tudor Arvinte, President and Chief Executive Officer, Therapeomic Inc
Dr Jean-René Authelin, Global Head of Pharmaceutical Engineering, Sanofi
Jean René Authelin has an Engineer degree in chemical Engineering from ENSIC (Nancy France), and a PhD from The Institut National Polytechnique de Lorraine (France). He joined Rhone Poulenc in 1988 as a Chemical Engineer. In the 90’s he founded the Physical Quality function, dedicated to the API...
Dr Jean-René Authelin, Global Head of Pharmaceutical Engineering, Sanofi
Dr Ahmed Besheer, Group head NBE formulation development - Biologics Drug Product Development, Novartis
Ahmed Besheer is a pharmacist by education and training, and holds a M.Sc. in polymer science, and a PhD in Pharmaceutical Technology from Martin-Luther university of Halle, Germany. He worked as a postdoc at Merck Serono in Darmstadt, and as assistant professor in the Pharmaceutical Technology...
Dr Ahmed Besheer, Group head NBE formulation development - Biologics Drug Product Development, Novartis
Dr Berthold Boedeker, Chief Scientist, Bayer Ag
Dr. Berthold Boedeker is Chief Scientist at Global Biologics-Biotech Development of Bayer Pharma AG in Wuppertal, Germany, which is responsible for the technical development and clinical material production of microbial and mammalian proteins. During his more than 30 years within the Bayer group he ...
Dr Berthold Boedeker, Chief Scientist, Bayer Ag
Dr Cristiana Boi, Researcher, University of Bologna
Tenured Full time Researcher and Aggregate Professor in Chemical Engineering at the University of Bologna. Vice-President and Secretary of the European Membrane Society.Her research activity, started when she was a Ph.D. student, is devoted to membrane separation processes with experimental...
Dr Cristiana Boi, Researcher, University of Bologna
Dr Harald Bradl, Director Cell Culture Development, Boehringer Ingelheim Pharma GmbH & Co. KG
• Biologist by training (Studies biology at the University Erlangen-Nürnberg)• Joined BI in 2005 as Associate Director for In-Process Control in Cell Culture Manufacturing (GMP facility)• From 2010 -2013: Associate Director for Cell Culture Development (Responsibility for the development...
Dr Harald Bradl, Director Cell Culture Development, Boehringer Ingelheim Pharma GmbH & Co. KG
Dr Christoph Brandenbusch, Group Leader, Bioprocess Separation, TU Dortmund University
Dr. Christoph Brandenbusch studied Chemical Engineering at the Department of Biochemical and Chemical Engineering at TU Dortmund, (Germany) 2003-2007. He finished his Ph.D. thesis under the supervision of Prof. G. Sadowski at the Laboratory of Thermodynamics, Department of Biochemical and Chemical...
Dr Christoph Brandenbusch, Group Leader, Bioprocess Separation, TU Dortmund University
Dr David Brindley, Senior Research Fellow in Healthcare Translation, Oxford University
Dr David Brindley is an international research and industrial leader in healthcare translation. He holds academic appointments at the University of Oxford, Harvard, UCL, Stanford-UCSF-FDA Centre for Regulatory Sciences and CASMI, and is an enthusiastic and diligent advisor to a portfolio of...
Dr David Brindley, Senior Research Fellow in Healthcare Translation, Oxford University
Dr Jorg Brockmann, Head of CMC Process Management, Formycon Ag
Dr. Brockmann is currently Head of CMC Process Management at Formycon AG, a leading independent developer of Quality Biosimilars. In his role, Dr. Brockmann oversees all CMC activities with external partners for development, manufacturing and clinical supply of Biosimilars. Prior to joining...
Dr Jorg Brockmann, Head of CMC Process Management, Formycon Ag
Dr Alessandro Butte, Lecturer, ETH Zurich
Alessandro Butté received his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering in 2000 from ETH Zurich. After a two-year post-doc at the Georgia Institute of Technology, he join the group of Prof. Morbidelli at ETH Zurich and completed his habilitation in 2008. During this period, his research activities focused on...
Dr Alessandro Butte, Lecturer, ETH Zurich
Dr Manuel Carrondo, Vice President, IBET
Chemical Engineer, 1971, Univ. Porto; Master of Sciences (1975) and Philosophy Doctor (1979) Environmental Engineering, Imperial College of Science and Technology, U. London; Habilitation, Biochemical Engineering (1991), Univ. Nova de Lisboa.Full Professor, Chemical and Biochemical...
Dr Manuel Carrondo, Vice President, IBET
Dr Veronique Chotteau, Principal Investigator, K.T.H. Royal Institute of Technology
Dr. Chotteau has ≥ 25 years of experience in mammalian cell culture including ≥ 10 years in biopharmaceutical industry. Her expertise covers process development (perfusion, fed-batch, stem cell bioprocessing, small-, pilot- and commercial scale, GMP). Dr. Chotteau has worked at Pharmacia...
Dr Veronique Chotteau, Principal Investigator, K.T.H. Royal Institute of Technology
Professor Klaus Cichutek, President, Paul Ehrlich Institute
Klaus Cichutek is an extraordinary Professor of Biochemistry at the Goethe University Frankfurt/Main, and President of the Paul-Ehrlich-Institut, Federal Institute for Vaccines and Biomedicines, Germany. The Paul-Ehrlich-Institut is a Medicines Agency (veterinary and human vaccines, human...
Professor Klaus Cichutek, President, Paul Ehrlich Institute
Dr Abina Crean, Principal Investigator, University College Cork
Dr. Abina Crean graduated with a degree in Pharmacy from Robert Gordon's University, Aberdeen, Scotland in 1992. In 1997, she completed a PhD in Pharmaceutics in the School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. Dr. Crean was employed as a formulation...
Dr Abina Crean, Principal Investigator, University College Cork
Sean Cullen, Developmental SCientist, Sanofi Ireland
After being awarded a B.Sc. (Biotechnology) from Dublin City University in 2007, Sean worked as a Process Technician in the Purification Department at Wyeth Biotech, Grange Castle. Sean then moved to Genzyme (now Sanofi), initially working as a Microbiologist for the Fill Finish manufacturing...
Sean Cullen, Developmental SCientist, Sanofi Ireland
Dr Kumar Dhanasekharan, Senior Director and Head of Biologics Process and Analytical Development, Amicus Therapeutics Inc
Dr. Dhanasekharan is Senior Director of Process and Analytical Development at Amicus Therapeutics responsible for late stage development and scale-up of biologics. He is currently heading the development for the lead enzyme replacement therapy program ATB200. Previously, he was responsible for...
Dr Kumar Dhanasekharan, Senior Director and Head of Biologics Process and Analytical Development, Amicus Therapeutics Inc
Dr Simone Dimartino, Lecturer, Institute for Bioengineering, University of Edinburgh
Dr. Dimartino is a Lecturer at the Institute for Bioengineering at the University of Edinburgh, UK. He has been always working, in a way or in another, in the development of new stationary phases for chromatography. He did his PhD at the University of Bologna on membrane chromatography, followed by ...
Dr Simone Dimartino, Lecturer, Institute for Bioengineering, University of Edinburgh
Dr Simon Fischer, Post Doctoral, Boehringer Ingelheim Pharma Gmbh
Dr. Simon Fischer received his PhD in Pharmaceutical Biotechnology from Ulm University, Germany, for his investigations of the role of microRNAs in CHO production cells. Before, Dr. Fischer studied Pharmaceutical Biotechnology (B.Sc) at Biberach University, Germany, as well as Biomedical...
Dr Simon Fischer, Post Doctoral, Boehringer Ingelheim Pharma Gmbh
Dr Tom Fletcher, Scientific Director, Irvine Scientific
Thomas Fletcher is Scientific Director at Irvine Scientific, a company that specializes in the development, manufacture and supply of cell culture media for a variety of applications. As a part of the Industrial Cell Culture business, Thomas leads the company’s efforts to provide relevant solutions ...
Dr Tom Fletcher, Scientific Director, Irvine Scientific
Dr Jamie Freeman, Product Manager (Bioproduction), Horizon Discovery
Dr Michael Gillmeister, Senior Scientist Media R&D, Lonza Walkersville, Inc.
Dr. Michael Gillmeister received his Ph.D. in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering from the Johns Hopkins University in collaboration with the University of Maryland School of Medicine specializing in glycosylation, transient protein production, and neurobiology. In 2009, Mike joined the Gibco®...
Dr Michael Gillmeister, Senior Scientist Media R&D, Lonza Walkersville, Inc.
Dr Stéphanie Greco, Head of Laboratory, Pharmaceutical Engineering, Sanofi
Stephanie Greco (1974, France) completed her under graduate studies in Physical Chemistry in the ESPCI Paris-Tech, where she received her Engineer degree in 1999. She obtained the same year a Master degree in Condensed Matter Chemistry at the University Pierre and Marie Curie, Paris, France.Then...
Dr Stéphanie Greco, Head of Laboratory, Pharmaceutical Engineering, Sanofi
Dr Hansjörg Hauser, Head of Dept. of Scientific Strategy, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research GmbH
Hansjörg Hauser’s expertise is molecular biology. He is studying events in transcription activation and signal transduction that mediate consequences of infections. With this work he tries to connect molecular events of innate immune reactions with complex phenotypes in the organism. He is also...
Dr Hansjörg Hauser, Head of Dept. of Scientific Strategy, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research GmbH
Dr Charles Haynes, Chemical & Biological Engineering, University of British Columbia
Professor Charles Haynes holds the Canada Research Chair in Interfacial Biotechnology within the Michael Smith Laboratories and the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering of the University of British Columbia. His research program aims to improve our understanding of the interfacial and ...
Dr Charles Haynes, Chemical & Biological Engineering, University of British Columbia
Professor Christoph Herwig, Professor of Biochemical Engineering, Vienna University of Technology
Christoph Herwig, bioprocess engineer, graduated from the process engineering department, university of technology RWTH Aachen in 1994. He worked in industry in the design and commissioning of large chemical facilities prior to enter his interdisciplinary PhD studies at the University of Technology ...
Professor Christoph Herwig, Professor of Biochemical Engineering, Vienna University of Technology
Eric Hickman, Program Manager, Manufacturing Sciences, Biogen Idec
Over a 10 year career at Biogen, Eric has worked in various levels of Upstream Process Development, focusing primarily on scaling up Mammalian Cell Culture processes from laboratory bench scale to pilot scale to manufacturing scale. He has experience transferring over 20 products from Research to ...
Eric Hickman, Program Manager, Manufacturing Sciences, Biogen Idec
Dr Ewelina Hoffman, Post-Doctoral Fellow, University of Hertfordshire
Ewelina Hoffman is a Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Department of Pharmacy, Pharmacology and Postgraduate Medicine at the University of Hertfordshire, UK. Ewelina graduated with a Master-level qualification in Pharmacy and completed her PhD in cancer cellular biology at the University of...
Dr Ewelina Hoffman, Post-Doctoral Fellow, University of Hertfordshire
Dr Jan Jezek, Chief Scientific Officer, Arecor
Dr. Jezek is the Chief Scientific Officer at Arecor Ltd. He has been trained as a biophysical chemist and holds a Ph.D. from the University of Bedfordshire (UK). He was a Principal Scientist at Insense Ltd between 2001 and 2007 responsible for the development of a range of novel wound care...
Dr Jan Jezek, Chief Scientific Officer, Arecor
Dr Dylan Jones, Principal Scientist, Sanofi
Began career as in-process QC analyst working for generics pharmaceutical manufacturer Norton Healthcare. From there new product development and finally team leader for analytical development. Supported the successful introduction of generic products to the market. Moved to GSK, Ware, in 2002 as ...
Dr Dylan Jones, Principal Scientist, Sanofi
Dr Cornelia Kasper, University Professor of Biopharmaceutical Technology, B.O.K.U. University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna
Since October 2011 Cornelia Kasper has been appointed Full University Professor “Biopharmaceutical Technology and Products” at the Department of Biotechnology at Boku. Between 2000-2001 Cornelia Kasper was the head of Cell Culture and Tissue Engineering Group at the Institute for Technical...
Dr Cornelia Kasper, University Professor of Biopharmaceutical Technology, B.O.K.U. University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna
Dr Hitto Kaufmann, Global Vice President of Biopharmaceutics Development, Sanofi Aventis Deutschland Germany Gmbh
Dr Kaufmann is currently the Global Vice President of Biopharmaceutical Development and Platform Innovation within Sanofi, and has previously held the role of Vice President Process Science Germany within the global biopharmaceutical division of Boehringer Ingelheim. Before this Dr. Kaufmann was...
Dr Hitto Kaufmann, Global Vice President of Biopharmaceutics Development, Sanofi Aventis Deutschland Germany Gmbh
Dr Paul Kelly, Postdoctoral Researcher, National Institute For Cellular Biotechnology
I have been a postdoctoral researcher at the National Institute for Cellular Biotechnology in Dublin City University for the last 2 years upon completing my PhD. I work in the area of Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) cell engineering for their improved bioprocessing performance. A main focus of my...
Dr Paul Kelly, Postdoctoral Researcher, National Institute For Cellular Biotechnology
Dr Helene Faustrup Kildegaard, Senior Researcher and Co PI, Technical University of Denmark
Helene Faustrup Kildegaard is Senior Researcher and co-Principal Investigator at the Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Biosustainability at the Technical University of Denmark. She received her PhD degree in cellular and molecular biology from the Danish Cancer Society/Technical University of...
Dr Helene Faustrup Kildegaard, Senior Researcher and Co PI, Technical University of Denmark
Dr Rolf Koehler, Group Head, Novartis Ag
Dr. Koehler received his Ph.D. from the University of Würzburg in Germany. He completed postdoctoral trainings at the Pasteur Institute in Paris and the Max-Planck-Institute for Infection Biology in Berlin. In 2006 Dr. Koehler joined Cytos Biotechnology AG in Zurich, Switzerland, leading the...
Dr Rolf Koehler, Group Head, Novartis Ag
Martin Kornecki, Researcher, Technische Universität Clausthal
I was born in Bad Mergentheim, Germany on 17 October 1990. I graduated from Braunschweig University of Technology in September 2013 with a Bachelor of Science in Biotechnology and in April 2016 with a Master of Science in Biotechnology with focus on biochemical engineering. Since July 2016, I am...
Martin Kornecki, Researcher, Technische Universität Clausthal
Dr Christoph Korpus, Head of Liquid Formulation Stability, Merck
Christoph Korpus graduated in Pharmacy at the Goethe-University in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. He finished his PhD thesis at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich under the supervision of Prof. Wolfgang Frieß. His research focused on the lyophilization process development for Dual Chamber...
Dr Christoph Korpus, Head of Liquid Formulation Stability, Merck
Dr Holger Laux, Fellow, Novartis Pharma
Dr. Laux is leading the mammalian expression platform of Technical Development NBE unit, Novartis Basel. Throughout his career he focused his work on functional genomics approaches as transcriptomics screens and subsequently cell line engineering editing. These efforts resulted in generation of...
Dr Holger Laux, Fellow, Novartis Pharma
Prof. Julian Ma, Hotung Chair of Molecular Immunology, St George's Univ London Ltd
Professor Ma is the Hotung Chair of Molecular Immunology and Director of the Institute for Infection and Immunity at St. George’s, University of London. He also holds an honorary Hospital Consultant appointment in Oral Medicine at King’s College London. He graduated in dentistry at Guy's...
Prof. Julian Ma, Hotung Chair of Molecular Immunology, St George's Univ London Ltd
Dr Jennifer McManus, Senior Lecturer in Chemistry, Maynooth University
Dr. Jennifer McManus is a lecturer in chemistry at Maynooth University. She received her B.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from University College Dublin and after a period of postdoctoral research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, established the Soft Matter and Biophysical Chemistry research...
Dr Jennifer McManus, Senior Lecturer in Chemistry, Maynooth University
Clare Medlow, Technical Sales Manager, Novo Nordisk Pharmatech
Dr Paula Meleady, Associate Director, National Institute for Cellular Biotechnology
Graduated in 1997 with a PhD in Cell Biology from Dublin City University (DCU), Dublin, Ireland. Appointed Senior Research Scientist at the National Institute for Cellular Biotechnology (NICB), DCU in 2001 and then in 2007 was appointed Programme Leader of the Proteomics and Mass Spectrometry Core...
Dr Paula Meleady, Associate Director, National Institute for Cellular Biotechnology
Dr Otto Wilhelm Merten, Head of Applied Vectorology and Innovation group, Genethon
Otto-Wilhelm MERTEN has a degree in biotechnology (Ph.D.) and today is the head of the group of Applied Vectorology and Innovation at Généthon. He has a large scientific experience gained during his stays at the Inst. Pasteur (Paris/F) as well as at the Sandoz Research Inst. (Vienna/A). Over the...
Dr Otto Wilhelm Merten, Head of Applied Vectorology and Innovation group, Genethon
Professor Massimo Morbidelli, Professor of Chemical and Bioengineering, ETH Zurich
Massimo Morbidelli received his Laurea in Chemical Engineering at the Politecnico di Milano in 1977, and his PhD in Chemical Engineering at the University of Notre Dame in 1986. After his first appointments as professor at the University of Cagliari (Italy) and then at the Politecnico di Milano, he ...
Professor Massimo Morbidelli, Professor of Chemical and Bioengineering, ETH Zurich
Dr Anna Münch, Senior Application Specialist, NanoTemper Technologies Gmbh
Dr. Anna Münch studied Biology at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany focusing on Microbiology, Biochemistry and Genetics. She then went on to study for a PhD at the LMU within the Faculty of Medicine. During these studies in the field of Alzheimer’s Disease research she used...
Dr Anna Münch, Senior Application Specialist, NanoTemper Technologies Gmbh
Dr Darragh O Donovan, Researcher, School of Biomolecular and Biomedical Science, University College Dublin
Darragh O’ Donovan PhD is a researcher in the School of Biomolecular and Biomedical Science at University College Dublin, within the laboratory of Dr. David O’ Connell. Our research focuses on addressing fundamental protein engineering questions related to optimizing high-affinity interactions, and ...
Dr Darragh O Donovan, Researcher, School of Biomolecular and Biomedical Science, University College Dublin
Dr David O'Connell, Lecturer & Director, Biomolecular & Biomedical Science, University College Dublin
David O’Connell PhD is a lecturer at the School of Biomolecular and Biomedical Science at University College Dublin. David is director of MSc. Programmes in Biotherapeutics and is a group leader investigating protein engineering research. David has funded an applied research programme in the lab...
Dr David O'Connell, Lecturer & Director, Biomolecular & Biomedical Science, University College Dublin
Dr Kerstin Otte, Head of Institute, University of Applied Sciences Biberach
Kerstin Otte is a trained biologist trained from the Phillipps-University of Marburg, Germany and obtained her PhD at the SL-University in Uppsala, Sweden. After a postdoctoral fellowhip at the Gurdon Institute at Cambridge, UK, she gained industry experience as senior scientist at Graffinity...
Dr Kerstin Otte, Head of Institute, University of Applied Sciences Biberach
Dr Manfred Papaspyrou, Head Marketing & Sales, Glycotope Biotechnology GmbH
Professor Sergey Piletsky, Professor, University of Leicester
Prof. S. Piletsky began his research career in 1985 after graduation from Kiev State University with a M.Sc. in Bioorganic Chemistry. In 1991 he received Ph.D. from Kiev Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry for a work on the design of molecularly imprinted polymers (MIPs) for nucleic acids. Since 1992 ...
Professor Sergey Piletsky, Professor, University of Leicester
Dr Payal Roychoudhury, Field Applications Scientist, MaxCyte
Payal Roychoudhury recently joined Maxcyte Inc as a Field Application Specialist. Prior to joining our team, she worked as an FAS for ThermoFisher Scientific (UK) where she covered their bioproduction portfolio for UK/ Ireland/ Scandinavia/ Israel/ Middle East/ Egypt and Africa. While at...
Dr Payal Roychoudhury, Field Applications Scientist, MaxCyte
Dr Oliver Spadiut, Group Leader of Integrated Bioprocess Development, Vienna University of Technology
Dr. Oliver Spadiut has studied Food Science and Biotechnology at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences (Vienna). During his studies, he spent several months in other research labs abroad (see CV) to gain more knowledge and to broaden his horizon. After 18 months of successful...
Dr Oliver Spadiut, Group Leader of Integrated Bioprocess Development, Vienna University of Technology
Dr Gerald Striedner, Assistant Professor, University of Natural Resources and Life Science Vienna B.O.K.U. and Austrian Centre of Industrial B
Master in “Food and Biotechnology” and PhD with focus on bioprocess engineering at the Department of Biotechnology at the University of Life Sciences and Natural Resources (BOKU). Venia docendi in Bioprocess Engineering. Current position Associate Professor at the Department of Biotechnology...
Dr Gerald Striedner, Assistant Professor, University of Natural Resources and Life Science Vienna B.O.K.U. and Austrian Centre of Industrial B
Dr Joey Studts, Global Bioprocess and Pharma Development, Boehringer Ingelheim Pharma GmbH & Co. KG
Dr. Joey Studts is currently Director of Late Stage Downstream Development in the BioPharmaceuticals Division at Boehringer Ingelheim Pharma GmbH in Biberach Germany. In this role, he is responsible for the development of purification processes, stage I validation, and transfer of therapeutic...
Dr Joey Studts, Global Bioprocess and Pharma Development, Boehringer Ingelheim Pharma GmbH & Co. KG
Ronen Tchelet, Cive President of Research and Business Development, Dyadic International Inc
Ronen Tchelet joined Dyadic in May 2013 and has been Dyadic’s Vice President of Research and Business Development since January 2016. Dr. Tchelet received his Ph.D. in Molecular Microbiology and Biotechnology from Tel Aviv University in 1993 and did his postdoctoral as an EERO fellow at the...
Ronen Tchelet, Cive President of Research and Business Development, Dyadic International Inc
Dr Shahid Uddin, Head Of Formulation, MedImmune Cambridge
Shahid Uddin is Head of Formulation sciences at MedImmune Cambridge (MedImmune is the biologics arm of AstraZeneca). He joined the company when it was known as Cambridge Antibody Technology after holding research posts in several start up biotech companies specialising in polyclonal antibody...
Dr Shahid Uddin, Head Of Formulation, MedImmune Cambridge
Dr Nicolas Urbieta, USP Scientist, Sanofi
Nicolas earned his PharmD from the University of Bordeaux and Dipl. Ing from the Institute of Biotechnology of Bordeaux. He has occupied various positions in the biopharmaceutical industry. While working at Merck Serono, Switzerland, he helped define the Process control Strategy for a commercial...
Dr Nicolas Urbieta, USP Scientist, Sanofi
Dr Ajoy Velayudhan, Professor of Bioprocess Engineering and Biotechnology & EPSRC Manufacturing Fellow, University College London
Ajoy Velayudhan is a Professor of Bioprocess Engineering and Biotechnology in the Department of Biochemical Engineering at University College London; he also holds an EPSRC Manufacturing Fellowship. He has ten years of experience in leading biotechnology companies in the USA, including Johnson...
Dr Ajoy Velayudhan, Professor of Bioprocess Engineering and Biotechnology & EPSRC Manufacturing Fellow, University College London
Dr Alain Vertès is a Sloan Fellow from London Business School and a microbiologist by training (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Institut Pasteur Paris, and University of Lille Flandres-Artois). He is a strategy and business development consultant for several companies, including big...
Dr Carsten Voss, Application Specialist of Process Chromatography, Bio Rad
Dr. Carsten Voss studied chemistry at Bielefeld University. Following this, he received a PhD. from the Faculty of Technology at Bielefeld University with a thesis in fermentation engineering. He went on to become head of a biochemical engineering research group and was appointed Assoc. Professor...
Dr Carsten Voss, Application Specialist of Process Chromatography, Bio Rad
Dr Thomas Wucherpfennig, Scientist, Cell Culture Development, Boehringer Ingelheim
Thomas studied Biotechnology at the Technical University of Braunschweig and Chemical Engineering at the University of Waterloo, Canada. He obtained his PhD from the Technical University of Braunschweig. Before joining Boehringer Ingelheim in 2014 as a Postdoctoral fellow, he gained expertise in...
Dr Thomas Wucherpfennig, Scientist, Cell Culture Development, Boehringer Ingelheim
Dr Marijke Wynants, MSAT Lead, Sanofi
Marijke Wynants obtained a PhD in Life Sciences at the University of Leuven, Belgium. She joined Sanofi in 2012 as process engineer in the Cell Culture Manufacturing Science team. In 2015, she became the lead of the Cell Culture Manufacturing Science team. Marijke is involved in cell culture media...
Dr Marijke Wynants, MSAT Lead, Sanofi
Dr Christoph Zehe, Head of Technology Development, Cellca Gmbh
Dr. Christoph Zehe holds a doctoral degree in molecular and cell biology from the University of Heidelberg (2007). In 2007, he joined Cellca GmbH and developed Cellca’s proprietary expression system. Furthermore, he established one of the most competitive platform processes for the generation of...
Dr Christoph Zehe, Head of Technology Development, Cellca Gmbh
Mr Steffen Zobel-Roos, Scientist, Institute of Separation and Process Technology, Technische Universität Clausthal
Steffen Zobel-Roos studied process engineering at the Clausthal university of technology finishing as Dipl.-Ing. in 2012. From January 2013 he started as scientific assistant at the Institute for Separation and Process Technology in the group of Prof. Strube. He is doing PhD studies in the field of ...
Mr Steffen Zobel-Roos, Scientist, Institute of Separation and Process Technology, Technische Universität Clausthal