Dr. Thilo Henckel

Head of Diagnostics Operation Manufacturing, i.e Compounding, lyophilization, fill & pack of specialized diagnostics kits for the life science research and In vitro Diagnostic (IvD) market.

Responsible for ensuring the success of a global strategic improvement initiative; part of a 133m CHF operational excellence program. • Leading a companywide “culture change” for developing new designs into manufacturing. • Managing a cross-functional and global team of 15 senior managers from operations, development, quality and finance. • Responsible for interfacing with global functions and life cycle management outside of the team to ensure alignment with stakeholders across the organization.

Leading all development and product care activities of IvD tests (molecular biology; qPCR) with teams based in the USA and Switzerland. Design transfer of products out of development into operations (IvD) Responsible for the system integration of hardware, assays, consumables and software; OEM development

Development and project leader for hemostasis and coagulations assays. Line Management of a development team of 6. Matrix Leadership for the cross functional project team responsible from concept to launch of IvD coagulation assays, launch of 3 IvD test kits. Member of the international working group of thrombin generation assays of the NIBSC. Presentation in several international standardization conferences. Project leader of a global market analysis.

Biogeochemie; Molekularbiologie, PCR, DGGE, Sequenzierung

Mikrobiologie, Molekularbiologie