Manfred Schulz, Chief Operating Officer

Manfred joined Lumavita in October 2008, shortly after the reorganisation, as Head of Project Management with over 16 years of R&D experience within the pharma industry.

Previously, Manfred worked as Senior Project Leader at Novartis in Basel/Switzerland and New Jersey/USA. At Novartis he spent more than 11 years in Pharma Development during which time he acquired a deep expertise in leading cross-functional project teams from early to late stage drug development, including new drug approvals in the US and the EU. Before that, Manfred spent 5 years in Immunology/Transplantation Research at what was formerly Sandoz, where he was responsible for internal research programmes and external research collaboration with US start-up companies.

Manfred earned his doctoral degree as a molecular biologist at the Institute of Genetics, University of Cologne. Post-doctoral research in Virology and Immunology was pursued at the University Hospital in Zurich under Prof. Zinkernagel and at the WHO sponsored ILRAD institute in Nairobi/Kenya. He also received a master’s degree in Project Management from the George Washington University.