Thorsten Platz

Forming strategic partnerships with UK/Ireland based Biotechs who are in need of manufacturing capability and capacity for Biologics (e.g. mAbs, ADCs and recombinant proteins) from DNA to Commercial.

I am the Pharmaceutical Impurities Commercial Lead at RSSL in Reading, UK. RSSL is a CRO operating in the outsourcing space for all of the analytical testing that is used/required in the pharmaceutical industry.

I am leading a team of 4 junior and 3 senior scientists in the pharmaceutical development department.

I am a research scientist in the Product Characterization department.

I am working as a Senior Analytical Chemist and purify very challenging achiral and chiral compounds such as various receptors, antagonists, ion channel modulators, proteins, peptides, enzymes etc. by using semi-preparative HPLC/SFC.

I worked as a Staff Chemist in the Early Development Analytical Research (EDAR) department. I supported the process chemists throughout the synthesis to the Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient (API) by developing, optimizing and validating analytical methods for the fully characterisation from intermediates to the final API and genotoxic impurities in each step of the synthesis.

I worked in The Safety and Environmental Assurance Centre (SEAC) as a Research Analyst in the Innovation Support of the Applied Science & Technology Department. I developed and validated selective, non-routine and often highly sensitive GC and HPLC methods for the analysis of substances and/or their metabolites and breakdown products in Unilever formulations and undergoing toxicological testing or trace analysis.

Core subjects: organic chemistry, analytical chemistry, physical chemistry, process engineering and marketing Optional subjects: biochemistry, bioanalytic, bioengineering, downstream processing, microbiology and genetic