Balázs Démuth, Ph.D.

Drug Product Development Scientist | Formulation Strategy | Enabling Developability of Challenging Small Molecules

Leiden, South Holland, Netherlands

About

I am a Drug Product Development Scientist with experience supporting the development of challenging small-molecule drug candidates from early preclinical development through formulation selection and developability assessment. My work focuses on integrating physicochemical characterization, solid-state understanding, formulation strategy and biopharmaceutic principles to support evidence-based development decisions. Rather than viewing individual technologies as solutions in themselves, I use the appropriate experimental tools—including thermal analysis, dissolution testing, microscopy, spray drying and other enabling technologies—to understand formulation behavior and guide development strategy. Throughout my career I have worked with poorly soluble compounds, amorphous systems, enabling formulations and complex drug products across CRO, academic and industrial environments. Areas of interest: • Drug Product Development • Developability Assessment • Physicochemical Characterization • Formulation Strategy • Solid-State Science • Biopharmaceutics • Dissolution & Supersaturation • Amorphous Drug Delivery • Pharmaceutical Development Publications: https://scholar.google.hu/citations?hl=en&user=Pv-2znkAAAAJ&view_op=list_works

Experience

  • Formulation Scientist at SeraNovo
    Jun 2022 - Present · 4 yrs 4 mos

  • R&D formulation scientist at Richter Gedeon Nyrt. / Magyarország
    Sep 2019 - Jun 2022 · 2 yrs 10 mos

  • Budapest University of Technology and Economics (5 yrs 7 mos)
    • Research Assistant
      Sep 2017 - Aug 2019 · 2 yrs

    • PhD Student
      Feb 2014 - Sep 2017 · 3 yrs 8 mos

  • Research Intern at Janssen-Ortho
    Jan 2015 - Apr 2015 · 4 mos