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Miltenyi Biomedicine
Friedrich-Ebert-Strasse 68
51429 Bergisch Gladbach
Germany
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Miltenyi Biomedicine Inc.
1201 Clopper Road,
Gaithersburg, MD 20878,
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Innovation in cell and gene therapies

Committed to bringing innovative cancer treatments and regenerative therapies to patients worldwide

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Innovation in cell and gene therapies

Committed to bringing innovative cancer treatments and regenerative therapies to patients worldwide

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Miltenyi Biomedicine – Who we are

Miltenyi Biomedicine is a biopharmaceutical company whose mission is to bring accessible and innovative cancer treatments and regenerative therapies to patients.

We strive to make a difference for patients who fight serious diseases every day – to improve their quality of life and give them the chance to live fully and create new dreams.

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Building on Miltenyi’s decades of experience, we are uniquely positioned to realize the great potential of the new cell and gene therapies and make them available to patients worldwide. Both Miltenyi Biomedicine and Miltenyi Biotec were founded and are privately owned by Stefan Miltenyi who is advancing cellular therapy since 1989.

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“I am excited to work in an innovative company to bring forward personalized medicine.“

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Personalized cell and gene therapies

Our clinical research and development program is focused on difficult-to-treat cancers – specifically, finding treatments for hematological cancers using CAR technology.

Our first investigational CAR T candidate, zamtocabtagene autoleucel, is currently being investigated in pivotal stage clinical trials in the EU and USA.

We are also working on regenerative therapies for the treatment of Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, and diabetes in the elderly.

Our expertise

We are an international and interdisciplinary team of skilled professionals. Our medical staff consists of accomplished hematologists and oncologists expert in treating patients and able to develop new therapeutic options for them. They are at the forefront of clinical research, leading the design and execution of our clinical trials.

We are serious about safety and quality of life, and we hold ourselves accountable to our patients. A highly professional team for pharmacovigilance and regulatory – with a proven track record in bringing new medicines to approval – is in charge of ensuring the safety of our pharmacological developments at all stages.

As we develop innovative cancer treatments, we push ourselves to make a real difference in patients’ lives.

Our CliniMACS® Cell Factories comply with GMP regulations for manufacturing genetically engineered cellular products, and they are certified in the manufacturing permit issued by the local authorities. Our manufacturing process and facilities are inspected by regulatory bodies such as the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the German Paul Ehrlich-Institut (PEI).

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Miltenyi Biomedicine’s leadership team

Our diverse management team – with backgrounds in medicine, industry and pharmacology – combines decades of experience in drug development, manufacturing and commercialization. The team is guiding the organization towards its goal of making a real difference in patients’ lives.

Toon Overstijns
Toon OverstijnsManaging Director, Board Member

Toon Overstijns joined Miltenyi in 2017 and is member of the board of directors of Miltenyi Biotec and chairman of the Board of Miltenyi Biomedicine.

Before joining the company, Toon was more than 25 years at Janssen Pharmaceuticals (J&J) were he held different positions. He was responsible for managing the Global Infectious Diseases & Vaccines Therapeutic Area based in USA. Prior to that he was company president of Janssen Japan based in Tokyo and Managing Director Janssen Germany based in Neuss.

Toon served as Field Officer for UNICEF in Bangladesh and Ethiopia prior to joining the pharmaceutical industry.

Toon holds an MD degree as well as a Chemistry and MBA degree. He studied at the University of Leuven in Belgium, the University of Stellenbosch in South Africa and at Stanford University in California.

Norbert Hentschel
Norbert HentschelFinance Director, Board Member

Norbert Hentschel joined Miltenyi in 2001 and is responsible for the global Finance, IT and Purchasing Organization.

He joined Miltenyi Biotec in 2001 from E.ON, where he served as an Expert in US Generally Accepted Accounting Principles. He started his Career in the Audit Division of Arthur Andersen, where he was involved in international IPOs, M&A Transactions, and year-end audits.

Norbert holds a Master’s degree in Economics (Dipl.-Volkswirt) from the University of Cologne. He has been a board member of the industry association BIO Deutschland since 2007, and he is co-editor of the Corporate Finance Magazine published by Handelsblatt Fachmedien.

Silke Holtkamp
Silke HoltkampHead of Clinical Development, Europe

Silke Holtkamp joined Miltenyi in 2009 and is leading the Clinical Development Department with all of the functions involved in Europe, which includes overseeing the Clinical Development strategy to support product approval with EMA as well as overseeing all clinical operational activities in Europe.

Silke has long-standing expertise in all aspects of clinical research, with medicinal products as well as medical devices, in a variety of companies. With more than 10 years of experience within the Miltenyi Group in different functions in Clinical Development, she has been successful in building, leading and re-structuring teams within this field.

Silke studied Biology and holds a Doctor of Natural Science (Dr.rer.nat) degree from Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, Germany.

Wing Leung
Wing LeungHead of Clinical Development, Asia Pacific

Wing Leung joined Miltenyi in 2016 and is responsible for clinical development in the US and APAC.

Prior to joining the company, Wing built more than 30 years of experience in academia and industry. He has worked in companies and institutions such as Johns Hopkins University (Faculty Member), St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital (Faculty Member and Chairman), Miltenyi Biotec (VP of Clinical Development) and Miltenyi Biomedicine (Senior Scientific Advisor). His fields of expertise are Transplantation and Cellular Therapy, Immunobiology and Clinical Development.

Wing holds an MD degree from the University of Hong Kong and a PhD from Johns Hopkins University.

Anna Wijatyk
Anna WijatykChief Medical Officer Miltenyi Biomedicine INC., USA

Anna Wijatyk joined Miltenyi Biomedicine in 2021 and heads the Boston Biomedicine office. She is responsible for leading clinical development of our current and future pharmaceutical assets in the US, such as Zamtocabtagene. She provides strategic medical input into clinical development activities, including clinical oversight of regulatory communication and submissions. She will maintain close relationships and collaborate with medical experts in US.

Before joining the company, Anna was Vice President, Head of Clinical Development at Agenus Inc., where she was responsible for the checkpoint inhibitors pipeline and cancer vaccine programs. Before that, she was responsible for the global development of the oncology portfolio at Shire Pharmaceuticals.

Prior to her experience in the biotech industry in the Boston area, Anna had several medical leadership roles at Bristol Myers Squibb, Baxter, Boston Scientific and Parexel in the US.

Anna holds several pharmaceutical qualifications including a Medical Doctor degree.

Linda Hanssens
Linda HanssensHead of Clinical Research & Development

Linda Hanssens joined Miltenyi Biomedicine in 2019 and is responsible for developing and managing all research needed to translate the most promising projects from basic research into early clinical trials to demonstrate safety and a first proof of concept in healthy volunteers and/or patients.

As head of Medical Affairs Linda is responsible for developing the global medical strategy of the cell therapy portfolio, managing educational and scientific activities such as advisory boards and Investigator Initiated Trials (IITs) as well as supervising the Medical Science Liaisons (MSLs).

Linda has built solid experience in medical affairs and clinical development in several large pharmaceutical companies such as UCB, BMS and GSK.

Linda received her Doctorate in Medical Sciences and a postgraduate degree in Public Health Sciences from the University of Liege, Belgium. She holds a Master’s degree in Molecular Biology from the University of Louvain, Belgium.

Tomasz Skrzypczak
Tomasz SkrzypczakVice President Commercial Strategy and Organization

Tomasz Skrzypczak leads the global commercial organization, being responsible for strategy and organizational structure, expanding our presence worldwide in light of CAR-T therapies future launch, primarily Zamtocabtagene Autoleucel. He joined Miltenyi Biomedicine in 2023.

Tomek has more than 20 years of experience in commercial activities in the innovative pharmaceutical industry. His track record includes various Strategic and Operational functions (General Management, Marketing, Sales, Digital/CRM/BI) in several geographies, on both local and regional levels.

Tomek earned a Marketing and General Management degree at the Poznań University of Economics and Business.

Andreas Woitossek
Andreas WoitossekVice President Global Business Development

Andreas joined Miltenyi Biomedicine in 2021 and is leading the commercialization of Zamtocabtagene including market access and reimbursement. Furthermore he is in charge of new business development and identifying potential partnerships for Miltenyi Biomedicine. In addition, he is responsible for providing commercial input in the early development portfolio to enable the selection of candidates for full development towards pharmaceutical products.

Andreas joined us from the Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson where he had more than 20 years’ experience in successfully commercializing a pharmaceutical portfolio. He started his career at Janssen Germany as Sales Force Director and became later Vice-President Marketing and Sales. Prior to joining us he was Managing Director for Janssen Hungary with expanded responsibilities for Central and Eastern European countries.

Andreas has several academic degrees including a degree in History, Catholic Theology and Philosophy.

Hans-Jürgen Fülle
Hans-Jürgen FülleVice President, Global Head of Regulatory Affairs

Hans-Jürgen Fülle is a physician scientist with extensive experience in research and drug development in academia and the pharmaceutical industry. He joined Miltenyi Biomedicine in 2022 to lead Regulatory Affairs globally with teams located in Germany and in the USA.

Previously he held strategic roles in Novartis Global Drug Development Regulatory Affairs across all stages of global development of medicinal products, from early to confirmatory clinical development, registration and post-marketing in US, EU and other major regions. Most recently, he was responsible for the regulatory strategy of Zolgensma® and multiple investigational AAV gene therapies in development at Novartis Gene Therapies. He also provided regulatory leadership for rare diseases programs, regenerative medicines and advanced therapy medicinal products in various therapeutic areas at the Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research (NIBR).

Hans-Jürgen completed his medical training at FU Berlin and U Freiburg i. Br., Germany. He holds a Doctorate in Medicine (LMU Munich, Germany), a master’s degree in Biochemistry (FU Berlin, Germany) and a master’s degree in Regulatory Science (USC, Los Angeles, CA).

Michael Terhoeven
Michael TerhoevenHead of Supply Chain

Michael Terhoeven joined Miltenyi Biomedicine in 2020 and is responsible for implementing the Supply Chain Strategy, leading the CAR-T cell logistics and the contracting for our manufacturing globally.

Michael joined the company from DHL, where he had long long-standing career of 16 years with multiple strategic roles including life science logistics, cold chain and environment monitoring. Prior to DHL, he worked with a pre-clinical biotech start-up in Berlin and for 7 years with the Boston Consulting Group.

Michael holds a Doctor of Natural Sciences (Dr. rer. Nat.) in Mathematical Physics from the University of Bonn.

Where is Miltenyi Biomedicine located?

Miltenyi Biomedicine GmbH
Friedrich-Ebert-Str. 68
51429 Bergisch Gladbach
Germany

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Miltenyi Biomedicine Inc.
1201 Clopper Road,
Gaithersburg, MD 20878,
USA.

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