Kris M.

Senior Scientist CMC, Monte Rosa Therapeutics

Zurich, Switzerland

About

Experience

  • Monte Rosa Therapeutics (Full-time · 3 yrs 5 mos)
    • Senior Scientist II CMC
      Mar 2025 - Present · 1 yr 4 mos

    • Senior Scientist I CMC
      Feb 2023 - Mar 2025 · 2 yrs 2 mos

      o CMC representative in internal core project teams o Responsible for external drug substance and drug product development for NCE o Responsible for external non-GMP and GMP manufacturing of drug substance and drug product to support tox and clinical studies o Contributing to and drafting of scientific reports, articles, patents, and regulatory documents (IND) o Vendor oversight and management

  • Chemist R&D at Lonza
    Aug 2020 - Jan 2023 · 2 yrs 6 mos

    As part of a multidisciplinary project team: o Technology transfers from customers to Lonza o GMP production of early and late-stage APIs o Process optimization (QbD, DOE), qualification (P-FMEA), and validation o R&D support during production including deviations, investigations, and problem solving Weekly or biweekly customer updates including presentations and/or reports Laboratory head and project-based supervision of lab technicians Trained 200+ Lonza Visp employees about "Be a Safety Leader" (work safety)

  • PhD Student at Universität Bern
    Mar 2016 - May 2020 · 4 yrs 3 mos

    “Synthesis of GDB-Derived Tricyclic Scaffolds for Medicinal Chemistry” in the group of Prof. Jean-Louis Reymond • Designed and synthesized in close collaboration with computational chemists novel 3D building blocks to increase selectivity, activity, and water solubility of drugs. • Enantioselective synthesis of “triquinazine” as a new 3D scaffold • Using triquinazine to create a selective, sub-nanomolar JAK inhibitor • Supervision of Master and Bachelor theses

  • Hydrior AG (Wettingen)
    • Project Manager R&D and Chief of Lab. deputy
      Jul 2015 - Feb 2016 · 8 mos

      - Project management - Contributed to several products currently on the market - Supervision of an intern - Guiding internal trainings and carrying out internal audits - Responsible for in-process and final product quality control - Scale up, production process development and optimization

    • Chemist
      Feb 2015 - Jun 2015 · 5 mos

      - Product development - Product quality optimisation - In-process and final product quality control - Creation of lab. operating instructions

    • Working Student
      Feb 2014 - Jan 2015 · 1 yr

      100% Workload

  • ETH Zurich (Zürich)
    • Student Tutor
      Sep 2013 - Dec 2013 · 4 mos

      Chemistry for Civil Engineering

    • Master Thesis
      Sep 2013 - Dec 2013 · 4 mos

      The Synthesis of New PKB Inhibitors for Investigation of Sulfur-Arene Interactions. Under the Supervision of Birgit Lauber in the Research Group of Prof. F. Diederich, Laboratories of Organic Chemistry, ETH Zürich