Ahmed Besheer, PhD LONZA

Ahmed Besheer holds a PhD in Pharmaceutical technology from Martin-Luther University, Halle, Germany. He did a Postdoc at Merck Serono in Darmstadt, Germany for 1 year, then worked as assistant professor in Ludwig-Maxmilian University in Munich, Germany for 3 years, before joining Novartis in Basel, Switzerland. Ahmed’s tenure at Novartis lasted 6 years, and his latest position was Group head for NBE formulation development.

Ahmed joined Lonza Drug product services in July 2018. He is Head of Formulation development for Non-Platform projects, where his team is responsible for early and late phase formulation development of various biologics formats, small molecules as well as CGTs.