Tom Govaerts

About

Experience

• CMC Leader, senior director at Coultreon Biopharma
  Sep 2025 - Present · 11 mos

• Galapagos ()
  • Drug Substance Leader
    Oct 2019 - Feb 2026 · 6 yrs 5 mos

  • Drug Substance Leader / Early Development CMC Leader
    Oct 2019 - Feb 2026 · 6 yrs 5 mos

    Since November 2019 working at Galapagos CMC development, as drug substance development specialist and early development CMC leader.

• The Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson (7 yrs 7 mos)
  • API scientific integrator
    2016 - Oct 2019 · 3 yrs 10 mos

    Since 2016 I am working in the API development department as an API scientific integrator; in this role I am part of the CMC-team and I am leading API process development projects in both external and internal network resulting in API for clinical trials. I have been part of several technical due diligences in support of business development (L&A) and also had the opportunity to develop experience in several niche areas (e.g. oligonucleotides). Since 2018, I was assigned into a technical project managment role supproting transition of discovery projects into early development.

  • Supply Execution Manager - External Manufacturing
    Apr 2012 - Jan 2016 · 3 yrs 10 mos

    managing clinical API manufacturing at the external network of Janssen Pharmaceutica

• Johnson & Johnson Pharmaceutical Research and Development, a division of Janssen Pharmaceutica (11 yrs 1 mo)
  • senior scientist
    2005 - 2012 · 7 yrs

  • Scientist
    2001 - 2005 · 4 yrs

• PhD student at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
  1997 - 2001 · 4 yrs