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The Experts

Jonas Anders, Ph.D Jonas Anders, Ph.D
Head of Marketing Chromatography,
Merck Millipore
Michael Bavand Michael Bavand, Ph.D
Chief Business Officer and Board Chairman,
ChromaCon, Germany
David Delvaille
DSP Supervisor
Merck Millipore
Gregory S. Blank, Ph.D
Bioprocess Consultant
USA
Tim Breece
Senior Scientist
Xoma Corporation, USA
Prof. Dr. Christian Frech
Head of the Institute for Biochemistry
Mannheim University of Applied Sciences, Germany
Prof. Dr. Thomas Herget
Head of Processing Technologies
Merck Millipore – Process Solutions, Germany
Paul Jorjorian
Manager Purification Development,
Gallus Biopharmaceutical, USA
David W. Kahn, Ph.D.
Senior Director,
Purification Sciences

GlaxoSmithKline
Prof. Dr. Dirk Lütkemeyer
Professor for Protein Characterisation,
Faculty of Engineering and Mathematics, Bielefeld University of Applied Sciences, Germany.
Prof. Dr. Massimo Morbidelli Prof. Dr. Massimo Morbidelli,
Professor for Chemical- and Bioengineering,
ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Franz Nothelfer
Associate Director Protein Science
Boehringer Ingelheim Pharma GmbH & Co. KG, Germany
Michael Phillips Ph.D Michael Phillips, Ph.D
Research Fellow,
EMD Millipore, USA
Prof. Dr. Hartmut Schlüter
Head of Core Facility Mass Spectrometric Proteomics
Institute of Clinical Chemistry, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Germany
Michael Schulte Michael Schulte, Ph.D
Senior Director within the Performance Materials division
Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany
Romas Skudas Romas Skudas
Lab Leader of Process Purification Downstream Technologies,
Merck Millipore, Germany
Guido Ströhlein Guido Ströhlein
CEO and Board Member,
ChromaCon, Germany
Prof. Klaus K. Unger Prof. Klaus K. Unger
Institute for Inorganic Chemistry and Analytical Chemistry
Johannes Gutenberg-University, Mainz, Germany
Pascal Valax, Ph.D
Director of the Microbial Unit at Merck BioDevelopment Merck Serono, France