Jonas Fransson, PhD Swedish Orphan Biovitrum

Dr Jonas Fransson is Director of Drug Product Development at Swedish Orphan Biovitrum AB, Stockholm, Sweden. He is trained at Uppsala University and received a Ph.D in pharmaceutics in 1996.

Since then he has held various positions in the areas of formulation development and manufacturing focusing on product development of biologics. He has worked in a number of development projects covering conventional injectables, ophthalmic delivery, injection devices and lyophilization development. Dr Fransson is now at Sobi AB responsible for formulation, packaging and device development.

Jonas is also engaged in various academic/industry collaborations and is chairman of the NextBioform consortium focusing on innovative methods for biological pharmaceuticals meeting end-user needs. Dr Fransson is also active in Sweden Drug Delivery.