Jernej Luzar

Experience

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  Lekarna Dravlje

  Sept 2011 - Jan 2012

  Pharmacist Intern

  - Advising patients- Dispensing medicines- Reviewing prescriptions for correctness- Inventorying, ordering and maintaining supply of medicines, chemicals, cosmetics

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  Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia

  Jan 2014 - Jan 2016

  Mentoring and teaching: conducting laboratory courses in Pharmaceutical Biotechnology (Master’s study program Pharmacy and Master’s study program Industrial Pharmacy) and in Drug Biotechnology (Master’s study program Biotechnology). Mentoring and guiding individual undergraduate students in their master’s thesis laboratory research work and writing. Research work: identification and characterization of allergen mimotopes. Mimotope expression on immunogenic carriers using recombinant DNA technology. Testing of IgE reactivity, allergenic activity and T cell immune response. Research skills: phage display technology, molecular cloning, protein expression in/on bacteriophages and Lactococcus lactis, isolation and cultivation of human immune cells, protein purification. Bioanalytics: ELISA, SDS-PAGE, western blot, PCR, qPCR, flow cytometry. Conducted individual research project (Development of diagnostic method for determining Down syndrome based on maternal blood sampling) for gifted high-school students.

  • Assistant in the field of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology

    Jan 2013 - Jan 2016

  • Young Researcher

    Jan 2012 - Jan 2016

  • "Knowledge for the Future"​ project entitled "New Generation of Researchers in Life Sciences"​

    Jan 2014 - Jan 2014
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  Krka

  Feb 2017 - Dec 2017

  Researcher in Pharmaceutical Development

  Formulation development for solid dosage forms. Participating in preformulation studies, designing and supervising formulation development, interpretation of analytical results. Participating in clinical trial documentation, preparing content for registration documentation, designing and supervising scale-up process from lab-scale to commercial scale, designing and supervising validation process for commercial size batches.

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  Sandoz

  Dec 2017 - now

  Technical expert for solid and sterile products manufactured and supplied by external suppliers. Technical support with bulk manufacturing, packaging, validation and implementation of product changes. Technical transfer lead for product transfers between development centers, CMOs and third parties. Involved in due diligence phase, supply point committee phase, launch of products and life-cycle management of products. Evaluation and implementation of product changes. Involved in new partner selections, different cost optimizations, savings initiatives, and remediation of products. Show less Technical expert for solid and sterile products manufactured and supplied by external suppliers. Technical support with bulk manufacturing, packaging, validation and implementation of product changes. Technical transfer lead for product transfers between development centers, CMOs and third parties. Involved in due diligence phase, supply point committee phase, launch of products and life-cycle management of products. Evaluation and implementation of product changes. Involved in new partner selections, different cost optimizations, savings initiatives, and remediation of products. Show less Designing and leading scale-up process for development of new final solid dosage forms using high level QbD approach. Transfer of new products from laboratory sites to production sites. Specialized in scale-up process. Responsible for optimization of technological process. Leading role at production of registration batches (technical and technological documentation, organization and execution of production batches, interpretation of results). Involved in preformulation, formulation, packaging, clinical trials and validation process. Responsible for registration documentation. Show less

  • Senior Technical Manager MS&T ESO

    Dec 2023 - now

  • Technical Manager MS&T ESO

    Mar 2021 - Dec 2023

  • Scientist in Pharmaceutical Development

    Dec 2017 - Mar 2021