Thomas Balzer

Dr. Thomas Balzer is an accomplished strategy and business driven International Executive Healthcare Professional with extensive experience in Clinical Drug Development as well as Medical Affairs.

In his most recent position, Thomas was Head of Clinical Development at Thrive Detect, an Exact Sciences Company, and was leading the development of a multi-cancer detection liquid biopsy assay.

Prior to that, Thomas worked for more than 25 years in various positions at Bayer HealthCare and served as Vice President and Global Head of Medical Affairs & Clinical Development Radiology at Bayer with responsibility for Bayer’s medical imaging business. This included pharmaceuticals (contrast media), medical devices and informatics/ AI projects. Thomas built, developed, led, and managed teams at different locations worldwide and completed successfully 4 global Clinical Development programs/ NDAs as well as several additional indication expansions.

Thomas attended Medical school in Berlin, Germany, and conducted his residency at the Benjamin Franklin hospital of the Free Uniiversity Berlin. He is board certified in Germany in Internal Medicine and he also earned his PhD from the Free University for work in neuro-endocrine pharmacology.