Henrik Luessen, Ph.D.
 
Curriculum Vitae
 
Henrik Luessen, Ph.D., joined the company OctoPlus in January 1999 as Director Business Development. In the meantime, the company has grown to become the European market leader for pharmaceutical formulation development of biopharmaceuticals, colloidal systems and advanced drug delivery systems for biotech-derived compounds.
 
In his previous position he was Manager Corporate Development at LTS LOHMANN Therapie Systeme GmbH. At LTS he was involved in corporate strategy and responsible for business development in Asia and Australia. Furthermore, he was responsible for business development in the field of new platform technologies.
 
He obtained his Ph.D. at the Leiden/Amsterdam Center of Drug Research in Pharmaceutical Technology, funded by the German National Scholarship Foundation. He is the (co-)author of more than 25 international publications and patent applications in the field of drug delivery. He graduated as a Pharmacist at University of Hamburg and received later also the certification as a Dutch Pharmacist.
 
He is also the Editor of the recently published book: "Starting a Business in the Life-Sciences: From idea to Market". He is an active member of subject group ’Pharmaceutical Biotechnology’ at the APV (International Association of Pharmaceutical Technology, Germany) and gives on a regular basis courses in technical (e.g. parenteral formulation of protein products, pulmonary delivery) and business related subjects. Furthermore, he is member of the CRS, AAPS and EAPB.
 
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