Dr. Christoph Korpus MBA

- Driving cross-company innovation by managing global commercial- and development alliances - Optimizing business- and innovation outcomes via cross-functional problem solving - Increasing net present value of alliance portfolio via business case revision and re-negotiations - Negotiating new alliances in collaboration with Business Development

- Supported implementation of "Syntropy", a Merck/Palantir joint venture for oncology data sharing - Launched external advisory board with global key opinion leaders in digital health and oncology - Implemented digital ethics as key differentiator vs. competition and basis for marketing strategy - Developed data strategy concepts incl. data governance/privacy

- Won Merck's 2018 corporate start-up contest with team "i-naSolve" - Led multiple product development projects (incl. project strategy and budgeting) - Managed and developed a team of 4 direct reports and multiple PhD- and Master students - Identified sweet spots for innovation via competitor analysis and technical landscaping

- Thema: „Energy transfer during lyophilization in dual chamber cartridges (DCCs)” - Betreuer: Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Frieß - Formulation development for biologics and lyophilization-process optimization - Supervision of students incl. master - and bachelor theses - Published several peer reviewed research articles > 10 invited conference talks in the field of freeze-drying

- Collaboration with leading scientist in the field of freeze-drying (laboratory of Prof. Michael Pikal) - Research stay was funded by a Doctoral Grant of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)

- Process deviation handling (GMP) using AQWA/TrackWise® - Process optimization and product transfer of solid dosage forms e.g. Voltaren®

- Gathering intensive experience in working in a GMP environment - Production yield analysis and process optimization of solid dosage form