Dr. Fabian Deutskens

Establishment and organization of a multidisciplinary group and laboratory facility for the development of innovative veterinary bacterial and viral vaccines targeting the unmet needs for swine, poultry and aquaculture • Project-, innovation- and portfolio management and strategy development • Discovery and evaluation of concepts and technologies for veterinary vaccine development • Supervision of planning, construction and qualification of 1,800 m2 laboratory building

Leader of multidisciplinary team developing production processes for viral veterinary vaccines. Responsible for the project progress and for the scientific background of the projects • Design, optimization, scale-up and transfer of veterinary viral vaccine production processes • Production of seed materials (cells and viruses) and batches for registration purpose • Development and transfer of analytical tests to monitor product yield an quality • Direction of a lab team within a GLP/GMP-environment

Member of a multidisciplinary project team which aims to develop new veterinary viral vaccines for livestock. Responsible for the project progress and for the scientific background of the projects • Lead of a laboratory team for establishment and validation of biological assays according to GLP • Design, supervision and reporting of safety and efficacy studies according to regulatory requirement

Investigation in the etiology of bovine neonatal pancytopenia (BNP) • Application of a broad spectrum of tests and methods (molecular biology/immunology) • Statistical data analysis • Identification of an unknown mechanism of vaccination induced immunopathology

Detection of viral signatures in tissue specimens via MALDI-IMS • MALDI-TOF and proteomics