Roland Thieme

Roland Thieme, Ph.D. Roland Thieme recently retired from heading small molecule development of Roche Basel. He was a member of the small molecule development leadership team located in Basel, Switzerland and of several technical governance committees.

Roland received his Master of Science in 1982 and his PhD in 1986 from the Albert-Ludwigs-University in Freiburg, Germany. He joined Roche in 1986 and in 1992 built a group for analytical development. From 1999 until 2001 he was technical team leader and responsible for CMC activities of early phase development and supply chain management activities of several projects. In 2001 he became head of the clinical Supply Center Basel with responsibility for scale-up and GMP manufacturing of the small molecule API portfolio. From 2002 to 2016 Roland was responsible for the global API development at Roche Basel, Tech Center Boulder/Colorado and the chemical development group in Florence/South Carolina. He served as Head of Process Research and Technical Development incl. Analytical Development & Clinical supply.