VIRUSURE - Key Persons
Angelika performed her studies at the Technical College for Chemistry in Graz before completing her post-graduate studies at the Donau University, Krems. She has been active in the pharmaceutical industry for more than 20 years holding positions at Baxter Healthcare, piChem and the Austrian inspectorate for GLP/GMP inspections (AGES PharmMed).
Angelika joined ViruSure in September 2010 as Quality Manager with overall responsibility for maintaining and developing the ViruSure quality systems to ensure a continued high level of quality for our testing services.
Alexander holds law degrees from the "University of Vienna" and "the George Washington University" in Washington DC and started his professional career with one of the big four auditing firms.
Originally a chemist/biochemist, Andy later specialised in Virology serving for 9 years at the MRC Virology Unit in Glasgow, Scotland, studying Herpesviruses and Adenoviruses. In 1995, he moved to the industry sector, initially as Director of Virus Validation services with Q-One Biotech Ltd, and later at the Pathogen Safety group of Baxter Healthcare in Vienna, Austria.
Job Titles:
- Manager in Vivo Laboratories
Katrin started her doctoral program at the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Experimental and Clinical Traumatology in Vienna, Austria. She completed her doctoral thesis in 2010. During these years in research, she gained much experience in working with various animal models of sepsis, shock and intensive care.
Job Titles:
- Business Development Manager
- Head of Business Development
Marina holds a PhD in Biomedical Engineering from University of Minho (Portugal) in collaboration with Johannes-Gutenberg University (Germany).
Marina joined ViruSure's team in 2020 as Business Development Manager bringing experience in ATMP development as well as in biopharmaceuticals and is responsible for customers in Portugal, Spain, France, United Kingdom, Scandinavia, North/South America and China.
Job Titles:
- Director of Business Development
- Manager Business Development
Dr Ralf Klein is Manager Business Development at ViruSure, having joined ViruSure in August 2009. Ralf has more than 25 years experience in the contract pathogen safety testing service industry.
Walter is a veterinarian by training and thereafter completed his Doctorate at the Institute of Virology, University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna.
Jürgen Ebner studied food- and biotechnology at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences. He joined ViruSure in 2009 and gained a lot of experience in biosafety testing of biopharmaceuticals. His area of expertise comprises the design and execution of Viral- and Prion Clearance Studies.