Federico Sabini MD in Biomedical Engineering Lonza AG

Accomplished primary packaging material expert with a master's degree in Bioengineering and over 9 years of experience in primary packaging development. After university, he joined Baxter Healthcare as a Product Development Engineer, supporting the V&V activities of new flexible bags for peritoneal dialysis treatment and design change control tasks for products already on the market. Then, he moved to the glass primary packaging material industry working for Nuova Ompi, Pharmaceutical System Division of Stevanato Group, as Technical Project Lead. In this role, he was leading the development activities of an innovative multi-products platform of sterile glass primary packaging systems (e.g. syringes, cartridges, and vials) for injectable, highly sensitive drugs from design concept to commercialization. Later, he joined Lonza DPS as an Associate Principal Scientist in Primary Packaging and Combination Products leading the implementation of a Container Closure System Qualification strategy for Vialed Drug Products and Pre-filled Syringes in the Lonza DPS manufacturing sites network. He is currently working as QC Senior Expert for PPMs at Lonza DPS. In this role, he is building up a global QC strategy for the incoming release of PPMs (including vials, pre-fillable syringes, rubber stoppers and plungers, and flip-off seal caps) and defining related internal specifications and requirements.