Eric J.M. Meier Novartis Pharma

Eric studied Organic Chemistry, Pharmacology and Toxicology, and received his PhD in Chemistry at the University of Zurich. Today, he also acts as industry lecturer for quality management in Pharma at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich), University of Basel and the University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Northwestern Switzerland. Eric joined Novartis in 2011, where he served as Quality Site Head for Novartis’ worldwide largest solid dosage form manufacturing in Switzerland.

He started his career as Head Quality Control in a pharmaceutical company producing solid, semi-solid, liquid dosage forms and synthetic APIs. Then he moved to Quality Assurance and was responsible for the Quality Units (QA/QC) of different middle and large sized companies producing biopharmaceutical APIs, sterile injectable and sterile ophthalmic under cGMP.

He has been Swiss Qualified Person and has been working in pharmaceutical quality for more than 20 years. Within global technical research and development quality assurance, Dr. Meier is responsible for all quality aspects of continuous manufacturing, the GMP readiness and the implementation of the pharmaceutical quality system for a continuous manufacturing plant in Switzerland.