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Dr. Vasco Filipe

Vasco Filipe is a biological engineer and obtained a Ph.D. degree in pharmaceutical sciences from the Utrecht University (The Netherlands) in 2011. His thesis focused on the physicochemical characteristics, stability in biological fluids and immunogenicity of monoclonal antibody aggregates. In 2012 he did a post-doc in collaboration between the Colorado University, Leiden University and SEPPIC. During this period he studied the biodistribution of IgG aggregates in vivo and also the stabilizing potential of new excipients for therapeutic protein formulations. In 2013 he joined Adocia in Lyon (France), where he worked as a research scientist in the analytical department and later became the project leader of monoclonal antibodies. In 2015 he joined Sanofi in Paris (France), where he works as a senior scientist in the formulation development department for biopharmaceuticals.