Marieke has over 20 years’ experience in bio-therapeutic development, facilitating collaboration of research, preclinical, CMC, and clinical development teams. She is passionate about scientific approaches to help companies bring life-saving pharmaceuticals from concept to the clinic and has a track record of ushering novel Biologics from pre-development to first-in-human clinical trials with aggressive timelines.

Marieke has hands-on experience in drug substance process development, technology transfer, process scale-up, selection and management of Contract Manufacturing Organizations (CMOs), CMC strategy, and regulatory filings for proteins, antibody-drug conjugates and mRNA products entering the clinic. Previous industry experience includes Kudo Biotechnology, GreenLight Biosciences, Mersana Therapeutics, ImmunoGen and Wyeth Biopharma.

Marieke received her PhD in Molecular Biology from the University of Zurich in Switzerland and completed post-doctoral training at Boston University.