Inge Holm Lauritzen

VP Business Development & Licensing/Strategic Planning

Chief responsibility

To establish and collaborate with the best network of partners, striving to successfully develop and commercialize tomorrow's oncology therapies.

Experience

Ms Inge Holm Lauritzen is a senior biotech and pharma executive with more than 15 years of contract negotiation and alliance management experience in the pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical industry. In H. Lundbeck (1998-2004), she headed the strategic sourcing and commercialization division, being responsible for all external manufacturing. As a senior product director (2004-2007), Ms Lauritzen headed H. Lundbeck's alliance with Merz Pharmaceuticals GmbH and was responsible for the life-cycle management of the in-licensed marketed Alzheimer drug Ebixa. More recently (2007-2010), she was Director, Biopharma Partnering at Novozymes A/S, responsible for establishing and maintaining the international network of license biotech/pharma partners for Novozymes' pipeline of anti-microbial peptide drug candidates.

Education

BSc, Chemical Engineering, Technical University of Denmark.

Managing Medical Product Innovation, Diploma from Scandinavian International Management Institute.

One of my favorite quotes

"To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose one self"
(Søren Kierkegaard)

In my own words

At Topotarget
My short-term goal is with our dedicated team at Topotarget to successfully - and through close collaboration with our existing and future partners - make belinostat globally available to cancer patients.

The main reason I chose my field
I take pride in having the privilege to work with professionals across different cultures, languages, and backgrounds - achieving the ultimate goal of developing new drugs that can improve the quality of life for patients in need.

The other side of me
Outside of work, I enjoy gardening, bike riding, and spinning - the latter with 4-6-hour marathon events - it is a great feeling when all energy depots are completely exhausted!