Brian Mullan, PhD Novartis

Brian Mullan is the Head, Manufacturing Science and Technology at Novartis Pharma’s Biologics Drug Substance manufacturing site in Huningue, Alsace, France. He joined Novartis in 2012 as a Global CMC Lead for Biologics products, and moved to MSAT in 2016.

Prior to joining Novartis, he worked at Aventis Pharma (now Sanofi), Vitry-sur-Seine, Paris, France (in the area of gene therapy vectors R&D) and Centocor Biologics and Eli Lilly (both in Cork, Ireland), in the area of biologics drug substance manufacturing.

He holds a BSc Biochemistry from the National University if Ireland, Galway, a PhD in Viral Genetics from University College Cork, and an MBA from from the Open University Business School, UK.