Pascal Chalus PhD Lonza AG

Pascal is a chemist by training from the University of Haute Alsace (France). He acquired a PhD by applying near-infrared spectroscopy and innovative chemometric tools for the determination of drug content in low-dosed narcotics tablets at F. Hoffman-La Roche. Pascal worked then for 9 years in small molecule development of F. Hoffman-La Roche, implementing vibrational spectroscopies and imaging technologies in drug product development. He then focused more on the spectroscopies and chemometrics in the frame of the implementation of PAT (Process Analytical Technology) in Roche’s small molecule drug development. Pascal joined LONZA’s Drug Product Services department in October 2017, and more specifically the Forensic Chemistry group. He and his co-workers are supporting the complete Lonza network and external companies in troubleshooting product deviations and foreign particle investigations. He is also supporting the Lonza Drug Product network in setting up visual inspection practices and providing test sets for training and qualification of operators and machines for biological cell and gene therapies.