Maria Marza Perez

Maria Marza Perez has over 11 years of experience in the Pharmaceutical industry. Prior to joining Xenikos in 2019, she worked at Synthon Biopharmaceuticals for almost 12 years, starting at the bioanalytical department in 2008. In 2009 she moved to the Downstream Process department, first as junior DSP researcher, and as senior DSP scientist from 2014 onwards.

During her time at Synthon, Maria has focused on the development of purification processes of monoclonal antibodies and ADC’s (from small to large scale), the planning of relevant CMC-related studies, writing specific project documentation, reviewing GMP-related documentation, and leading process scale up and technology transfer to the manufacturing plant, amongst others.

At Xenikos, Maria works as CMC Project Manager, and is responsible for managing the development, implementation and validation of biopharmaceutical manufacturing processes.