Romain Pastor

Late phase Drug Substance Lead

Basel, Basel, Switzerland

About

Experience

  • Drug Substance Functional Lead at Novartis
    Sep 2016 - Present · 9 yrs 10 mos

    - Late phase process development - Support process optimization, process characterization and process transfer

  • Sanofi (11 yrs 1 mo)
    • Technology Transfer Leader
      Sep 2013 - Sep 2016 · 3 yrs 1 mo

      - Lead a 10 people cross-site and cross-functional TT team (Operations, Supply chain, Quality, Process Development, EHS, Engineering) to ensure the successful transfer and GMP manufacture at industrial scale - Provide budgetary and schedule estimates for the requirements of the project - Support manufacturing activities by identifying and resolving complex problems, facilitating/helping teams to resolve ambiguity resulting from rapid change - Ensure reporting to iCMC project core Team, Stakeholders, Manufacturing site management and beyond

    • Principal Scientist
      Sep 2008 - Sep 2013 · 5 yrs 1 mo

      - Developed scalable and reproducible industrial processes for production of biologics (cell culture with CHO) and small molecules (fermentation with yeasts) - Managed a team of scientists - Designed new labs and pilot facilities for cell culture (+500 m2)

    • Process Engineer
      Sep 2005 - Sep 2008 · 3 yrs 1 mo

      - Resolved productivity issues with trials at 20L scale (media optimization with DoE) - Assisted in writing and reviewing of manufacturing batch records in accordance with cGMP standards - Supervised data process monitoring (trends follow-up, control chart)