Pietro Di Stefano

Team Leader/Principal Scientist/ Process Development / GMP Manufacturing / API / Pharma / CMC

Roermond, Limburg, Netherlands

About

I am a pharmaceutical professional with more than 13 years of experience in chemical development, including 5 years in project and team leadership roles. My expertise lies in process development and GMP manufacturing of APIs, supporting drug development programs from early development to clinical supply. I have extensive experience working in cross-functional environments, coordinating chemists, analysts, engineers, and manufacturing teams to deliver complex development projects. Key areas of expertise include: • API process development and optimization • GMP manufacturing and regulatory compliance • CMC project management • Process scale-up and technology transfer • Cross-functional team leadership

Experience

  • Chemical Project Leader/Senior Team Leader Process R&D at Symeres

    Chemical Project Leader of a process R&D team. Optimization and development of a synthetic chemical process for GMP and/or non-GMP production of an API in the Pilot Plant.

  • Master student at Dipartimento farmacochimico, biologico e tossicologico

    Synthesis of heterocyclic compounds with potential anticancer activity as intercalating agents. 1D-proton NMR analysis, organic synthesis

  • PhD student at University of Regensburg

    Asymmetric synthesis of conformationally constrained gamma-amino acids derivatives, as building blocks in the design of new Neuropeptide Y analogues by solid phase peptide synthesis, in order to analyze their conformation and test their activity. 1D- and 2D-proton NMR (Nuclear Magnetic Resonance) analysis, purification of peptides by HPLC (High Performance Liquid Chormatography) preparative, CD (Circular Dichroism) analysis, Drug Design.

  • Research Scientist at Symeres

    Organic synthesis of different compounds for pharmaceutical industries. Process and Development, Discovery Chemistry

  • Research Scientist at Syncom BV

    Organic synthesis of different compounds for pharmaceutical industries. Preparation of known and unknown compounds from small to medium scale.