Archives: Speakers

Ulrike is an expert in ensuring successful operational execution and excellent team performance with a track record of developing drugs from research to market launch.

She has extensive experience in the leadership of multi-cultural and cross-functional project teams, within Research & Development in phase I – IV clinical studies, international product launches, portfolio and alliance management and clinical operations.

Ulrike is a pharmacist by training with a Ph.D. in pharmacology.

At Merck Serono KGaA she held various positions with increasing responsibilities, starting as a project manager, moving on to International Team Leader and Product Director.

In 2007 Ulrike joined Fresenius Biotech with responsibility for the Global Program & Portfolio Management department.

In Sept. 2010 she joined Vifor Pharma in Zürich and newly implemented the Global Project & Alliance Management Department. Her responsibilities focus on project, portfolio and change management. During 2013-15 she led the Global Clinical Operations department.

As of 2019, Ulrike works as an independent consultant focusing on project and alliance management services for pharmaceutical companies to ensure operational excellence and process improvement.

Ulrike is an IMPA-certified Project Director and holds a lean six sigma Black Belt

Bodo Lutz is working for Novartis since 2011 as an expert within Global Drug Development Quality

for clinical data integrity, risk management and company’s decentralized trial projects. In this position

he is an alliance manager for multiple partners ranging from clinical operation functions to external

parties advancing the acceptance and implementation of digital technologies enabling patient centric

trials.

He has more than 15 years of industry experience from CROs, Medical Device and Pharmaceutical

companies, in roles focusing on quality and compliance. He regularly provides university lectures on

quality topics for MSc Clinical Research programs.

Bodo Lutz, a German native, is an environmental engineer and marine biologist by education and

received his doctorate of natural sciences (PhD) from the Technical University of Munich, Germany.

Jessica Cordes studied Molecular Life Science in Luebeck and started her business career for 2 years at the Central Lab MDS Pharma Services as project manager.

She moved then to GlaxoSmithKline where she worked as country project leader for 4 years.

In 2013, she moved to MorphoSys, working in an international role as clinical trial leader overseeing clinical trials with antibodies.

2017 she moved to Medigene as clinical trial manager, planning and implementing a cell therapy clinical trial and in 2018 took over the leadership for Clinical Operations while building the group. In 2021, she joined Immatics being responsible for building a global cohesive Clinical Operations department and leading the operational strategy for the global conduct of all clinical trials.

Max Horneck has been the programmer and developer of one of the first EDC and IRT systems in the young internet-era in the 90s. For more than 25 years he worked in clinical IT and data management. He has a PhD in linguistics, philosophy and computer science. Currently he holds a position as head of clinical data management and eClinical systems at medac GmbH a midsize pharmaceutical manufacturer. With more than 20 years of CRO background, 10 years business consultancy and 5 years in pharmaceutical industry he combines the perspective of a CRO with that of a sponsor organization.