In his current role, Bernd Vergouwen manages projects of all varieties at the Weert facility. His responsibilities involve procurement, logistics, timeline development, technical client communication, and of course helping to solve technical issues. He has an excellent reputation with customers for ensuring projects are on-time and on-budget, and that all technical information flows optimally. Bernd has a broad range of experience in medicinal chemistry and process development from laboratory to pilot plant scale in both GMP and non-GMP environments. In addition, he has managed process validation activities, and has experience in the generation of Drug Master Files (eCTD) and IND submission documents.Prior to joining ChemShop, he was with Tibotec (a Johnson & Johnson company) as a medicinal chemist in charge of the initial scale-up process R&D work. At Tibotec he was a co-inventor in several patents (Broad spectrum substituted benzisoxazole sulfonamide HIV protease inhibitors). Prior to that he worked at Janssen Pharmaceutica, Belgium as a medicinal chemist for 6 years. Bernd’s experience, covering the wide range from medicinal chemistry to pilot-plant scale-up, ensures that our client’s projects will be well managed and he is a real asset to the company.Educational Background Organic Chemistry (Antwerp) and M.S. Organic Chemistry at the University of Cologne. |