Alexander Aslanidis, PhD

Director Business Development at NUVISAN The Science CRO

Greater Munich Metropolitan Area

About

✔ An open-minded, results- and people-centric teamplayer. ✔ Rich experience in Business Development and Sales in Drug Discovery, Development and Life Sciences. ✔ Scientific research background in the areas of Immunology, Neuroscience, Ophthalmology and Human Genetics. ✔ Training and experience in designing, conducting and globally communicating multiple research projects at a time. ✔ Know-how in mentoring, supervision and support of researchers from different cultural and scientific/medical backgrounds. ✔ Lifelong learner. ✔ You made it this far?! Let`s connect ;)

Experience

  • Nuvisan (DACH · Remote)
    • Director Business Development
      Oct 2025 - Present · 9 mos

      Promotion and distribution of preclinical drug discovery and development services along the complete value chain for biopharmaceutical and agrochemical companies of all sizes. Detection and strategic development of partners to facilitate mutual growth and project success in drug discovery & development.

    • Business Development Manager
      May 2023 - Sep 2025 · 2 yrs 5 mos

  • JANVIER LABS (Remote)
    • Business Development Manager
      Jan 2023 - Mar 2023 · 3 mos

      Promotion and distribution of preclinical research models and associated services for pharmaceutical and biomedical research with a focus on immunology/oncology. Detection and development of new market segments to increase cross-selling of products and services.

    • Sales Manager
      Apr 2019 - Jan 2023 · 3 yrs 10 mos

      Promotion and distribution of preclinical research models and associated services for pharmaceutical and biomedical research. Detection and development of new market segments to increase cross-selling of products and services.

  • Account Manager at Eurogentec
    Nov 2016 - Mar 2019 · 2 yrs 5 mos

    Promotion and distribution of genomics and proteomics products and projects to academic and industrial research, diagnostics and pharmaceutical institutions. Detection and development of new market segments to increase cross-selling of products and services.

  • Uniklinik Köln (Department of Ophthalmology)
    • Postdoctoral Research Fellow
      Nov 2015 - Sep 2016 · 11 mos

      Investigating the disease etiology and potential immunomodulatory therapies for the treatment of monogenic or complex genetic retinal diseases (e.g. Retinitis Pigmentosa, Age-related macular degeneration).

    • PhD Student, Research Associate
      Jul 2012 - Nov 2015 · 3 yrs 5 mos

      The main goals of my PhD research were the identification and characterization of novel microglial reactivity markers in the retina and the design of therapeutic strategies to reduce neuroinflammation and retinal degeneration. Further, i was interested in the function of photoreceptor gene-regulatory networks with the aim of identifying/characterizing novel retinal disease genes.

  • Internship at Thermo Fisher Scientific
    May 2012 - Jun 2012 · 2 mos

    High throughput gene synthesis. As a part of the molecular cloning team, I carried out inoculation and plasmid preparation for subcloning/sequencing according to the customers' wishes.