Peter Soelkner

Peter Soelkner has been a managing director of Vetter Pharma-Fertigung GmbH & Co. KG since June 2008. In 2009, he was also appointed managing director of Vetter Pharma International GmbH, the company’s marketing and sales organization. Soelkner graduated from the University of Dortmund, Germany, in 1992 with a degree in chemical engineering and earned an MBA from Columbia University, New York, in 2001. Before joining Vetter, he held positions in Germany and North America at Sartorius AG and Sartorius North America Inc., in R&D, marketing, key account management and general management roles.

Articles by Peter Soelkner

• Finding the right partner to solve the lyophilization challenge

  Monday, September 23, 2013

  About 30 percent of all parenteral drugs approved by the FDA in the past few years involved freeze-dried substances. Experts are predicting a possible rise to even 50 per cent in the future. It's definitely a challenge for R&D as well as commercial filling. Therefore many pharmaceutical and biotech companies rely on outsourcing partners. But how to find the right partner for the challenge?