Cristina Grigore, MSc DPS Lonza

Cristina is a pharmacist by training with a masters degree in pharmaceutical technology and quality by design (QbD).

She started her career in the pharmaceutical industry by joining Novartis, where she worked in the late stage development of biosimilar molecules as well as various assignments in QA release, Production and Global strategy. In 2016 she joined the Novartis Drug Product Development department, working on scale-up and tech transfer of new biological entities.

Since March 2018, she is part of the Lonza DPS team, undertaking process development activities, with a focus on freeze-drying development and optimization.