CordenPharma

Global Head Development and Innovation at CordenPharma. He manages the process and analytical development of CordenPharma globally in the fields of Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients and Drug Products.

Adriano studied organic chemistry at the University of Basel, Switzerland and received his PhD from the ETH Zürich for the investigation of Nickel catalyzed cross-coupling reactions in the group of Prof Consiglio. After a postdoc in the group of Prof B. M. Trost at Stanford University, he joined the centralized service department of Ciba-Geigy in Basel as a research chemist of catalytic reactions.
Before Adriano joined CordenPharma, he held positions as head R&D at RohnerChem, Switzerland and project manager at Siegfried, Switzerland. Adriano is author and co-author of more than 20 scientific articles and co-inventor on several patents.

His main interest is the implementation of new technologies in the pharma industries such as e.g. flow chemistry and super critical fluid chromatography to improve the efficacy in development and production.