Klaus Kaiser, PhD Bayer

Dr. Klaus Kaiser is Head of Downstream within Biological Development at Bayer in Wuppertal, Germany. He also serves as lead of several strategic projects in the field of protein purification.

He received a Diploma degree in Technical Biology from University of Stuttgart with the focus on Biochemical Engineering and a Doctor degree in Biochemistry from the Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich where his research activities focused on the control of class II gene transcription.

After joining Bayer in 1997 Klaus worked several years in Technology Development to support biotechnological processes as well as blood plasma fractionation with focus on cell culture perfusion and virus safety topics. Until now he held different roles in process development and clinical manufacturing. His recent responsibility focuses on early and late stage development and process transfer from clinical scale to commercial production. Klaus shares a broad knowledge and experience in process characterization and production of different bulk drug substance modalities like antibodies and antibody drug conjugates.

Specific interests cover downstream processing platform technologies, single-use applications and continuous manufacturing. Klaus also served as member in the DECHEMA expert committee “Bioprocess Technology” and in the “Qualification of scale down models for bioprocess” Point Share within the cross industry collaboration BPDG.