Denise Heinz

Denise Heinz serves as the operations manager for Apertus Pharmaceuticals. Denise is responsible for assisting in day-to-day activities involving the start-up as well as managing the analytical lab and assuring DEA and FDA regulatory requirements are followed.

Denise has over 10 years of pharmaceutical industry experience. She worked for Mallinckrodt/Covidien pharmaceuticals in quality control, research and development, validations, and manufacturing support. She has extensive experience with peptide chemistry and controlled substance APIs. Most recently, she worked in the technical support R&D group as a Senior Research Analytical Chemist where she assisted with OOS investigations, customer complaints, impurity identification, analytical method development, and validation.

Denise received her Bachelor’s degree (Chemistry) from Knox College.