Thomas is a proven aerosol and inhaler expert, combining scientific, regulatory, market and strategic expertise. He joins Actarmo from Sandoz International.

He was heading several projects for different scopes. His experience expands from CMC and clinical to regulatory and market. He was setting up development and regulatory strategy and participated regularly in meetings with authorities. Thomas evaluated major projects from technical feasibility and commercial viability through to endorsement process and execution.

Thomas laid the ground for his international career during his 8 years at Aeropharm (Sandoz), where he served as project manager for generic dry powder and metered dose inhalers. During this time, Thomas set-up the dry powder inhaler department (development, analytical and manufacturing) and was leading the team to approval of a major product (Airflusal®).

Before his career at Sandoz, Thomas spent several years at Pulmotec and Sofotec where he was involved in different DPI development programs.

Franz is our head of quality control. He joined Actarmo Medical in 2020 and was responsible for development and validation of analytical methods for e.g. soft mist inhalers. Franz and his team will take care of managing and successful implementation of analytical projects, on-site and cross-site.

Franz is an approved food chemist with a PhD in analytical chemistry and has more than 20 years of professional experience in developing and validation of stability indicating analytical methods according to ICH- and GMP-rules. In addition, Franz brings both extensive knowledge in transferring of validated methods to routine analysis or other GMP-receiving sites, as well as in the organization and implementation of stability studies.

As Franz began his professional career in the pharmaceutical service sector, he was an employee in GMP development/routine analysis and structure elucidation of unknown substances by LC-ESI-MS. This was followed by GMP management positions with Franz – as dedicated specialist – continuing to carry out LC-ESI-MS-experiments. Most recently until Franz started at Actarmo Medical he was responsible in his position for implementing and managing (on-site and cross-site analytical) projects within the laboratory units.

Knut is a renowned aerosol scientist with more than 20 years of experience. During his professional career Knut dealt with all aspects of aerosol generation and analysis and their behaviour in the respiratory tract. In this scientific area he co-authored 40 more than peer reviewed scientific articles.

He came in contact with all types of inhalation drug products: Dry Powder Inhalers (DPI), pressurized Metered Dose Inhalers (pMDI), Soft Mist Inhalers and Nebulizers (Jet, Mesh and Ultrasonic Nebulizer) and gained a vast knowledge in the analytical methods to characterize these products.

In his last position as Senior Director in vitro trials and Head of Manufacturing at Inamed, he successfully implemented a GMP system for manufacturing of radiolabelled IMPs for lung deposition studies and gained the manufacturing authorization for radiolabelling of several inhalation drug products.