Prof. Dr. Gerhard Winter
CEO
business
Amarin
Ireland
Biography
rof. Dr. Gerhard Winter is expert in formulation development and delivery of biopharmaceutical drugs and, colloidal drug carriers, parenteral process technologies and lyophilization. Before becoming professor for Pharmaceutical Technology and Biopharmaceutics at the LMU Munich in 1999, he has been working in the pharmaceutical industry for more than 12 years with positions at Merck, Boehringer Mannheim and Roche. During his industry years Dr. Winter was responsible i.a. for market formulations of erythropoietin, ibandronate and reteplase. He led a formulations research team on parenteral drugs, focusing on biotec products and in parallel headed a large scale clinical supplies unit for aseptically manufactured injectables, including manufacture of freeze-dried products. His responsibilities span from preformulation and interface management with downstream processing to formulation development, stability studies, upscaling and CMC dossier preparation.
Research Interest
PHARMACOLOGY