Andreas was a Director in the Autoimmunity, Transplantation & Inflammation group at the Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research. In this position, he was involved in many aspects of early to late drug development for immune-mediated diseases, taking several modalities to clinical trial and late stage development. He also supported multiple deals with startups. Prior to this, he worked at the Central Research Laboratories at Ciba Geigy, doing research on immune cell trafficking. Andreas studied Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and started his career as a faculty member at the Georgia Institute of Technology.

Acting as Clinical Trial Associate, Aswathy joined Anaveon in November 2021 after a successful internship and brings over 10 years of experience in the field of molecular diagnostics, cancer cytogenetics and cancer immunotherapy. Prior to Anaveon, Aswathy worked as a Senior Research Associate in the pharmacology group of Roche Innovation Centre, Zurich. She started her career as a cytogeneticist in a biotechnology company in Mumbai, India. Aswathy holds a master’s degree in biotechnology from Bharathiyar University, India.

Christoph joined Anaveon from Roche pRED Immunology, where he led the transition to the late-stage development of Crovalimab, a complement C5 inhibitor. Before that, Christoph was at the Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research, where he led programs in the stem cell transplant and complement system spaces and conducted trials in cell therapy. He obtained his medical degree and training in stem cell transplantation and internal medicine in Basel, and he completed his postdoc in the immunobiology of graft versus host and graft versus leukemia effects in Bruce Blazar’s group at the University of Minnesota. Christoph continues to practice hematology part-time at the University Hospital Basel.

Christoph has over 10 years of experience in drug discovery and preclinical development in the areas of cancer immunotherapy and cancer vaccines, inflammation and asthma, and immuno-safety. Before joining Anaveon, he held leadership positions at Roche, Pfizer and COI Pharmaceuticals. Christoph obtained his PhD in Molecular Biology from the University of Zurich and did his postdoctoral training in B cell immunology and innate immune receptor signaling at The Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, California.

Our Laboratory Head Kirsten joined Anaveon in June 2021, from Roche pRED where she led preclinical drug discovery projects using locked nucleic acids, small or large molecules to modulate the immune response in the fields of antibiotics, virology, and autoimmunity. Before that, Kirsten was Oberassistentin/senior scientist at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich focusing on the immune response in chronic viral infection. She obtained her PhD in Freiburg, Germany. Kirsten has broad immunology expertise and especially likes T cells.

Laetitia started her carrier in 1999 in academic research at the Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology and Epigenetics in Freiburg, and later at the Institute for Immunology of the LMU in Munich, working on DC and B cells fundamental research with transgenic mice. She joined Micromet (acquired by Amgen) to take part of the development on Bi-Specific T cell engager (BITE) technology and gained experience in toxicology studies. Laetitia spent the last 13 years at Roche, developing in vitro immunosafety assays, investigating the immunogenicity and pharmacodynamic properties of new bi-specific monoclonal antibodies in mice. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Biotechnologies from Lyon Catholic University, France.

Nicole joined the Anaveon team in October 2020, bringing with her more than ten years’ experience in pharmaceutical research. Previous to Anaveon, she held a position as Senior Scientist at Novartis, where she gained expertise in various aspects of drug discovery research. She was involved in several preclinical and early clinical projects, mainly in the field of autoimmunity, transplantation and inflammation. Nicole holds a Master’s degree in Biology from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich.

Patrizia joined Anaveon after obtaining her PhD degree from ETH Zürich. Her doctoral thesis focused on the generation of novel tumor-specific antibodies and antibody-fusion proteins for the immunotherapy of various cancer types. Before that, Patrizia spent one year at UCSF in the USA as a Junior Scientist, studying the antitumoral effects of oncolytic viruses in combination with immunecheckpoint inhibitors. She holds a Master’s degree in Pharmaceutical Sciences and a Swiss federal diploma as Pharmacist.

With more than 12 years of clinical operations experience, Silvio joined the Anaveon team in April 2021 as Clinical Trial Leader. Previously, he had the opportunity to work for large pharmaceutical companies but also as consultant acting as project manager supporting mainly small and mid-sized biotechnology companies across Europe. Through his involvement in several early immunology and cell therapy drugs development clinical studies, Silvio has decided to continue learning and boosting his clinical research knowledge through post-graduate education programmes.

As a pharmaceutical assistant and nurse, Simone brings a broad and long-standing experience in the healthcare and pharmaceutical sector. She spent over 12 years at Roche Pharma within Marketing and QA as a personal Assistant to the Head of Department as well as 10 years of executive support to the Head of Diagnostic Hematology and the medical team at the University Hospital in Basel. Simone is passionate about patient care and coordinates the activities of Anaveon’s expanding clinical development team.