Dirk Weigelt

Experience

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  Deilmann-Haniel Mining and Tunneling GmbH

  Mar 1985 - Sept 1989

  Face Worker

  - Working with tunneling in the coal mine Victoria 1/2 during school breaks for a total of 37 weeks.

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  Umwelt Control Labor

  Aug 1990 - Sept 1990

  Summer Student

  - Employed in the inorganic analytical division.

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  UCL Umwelt Control Labor GmbH

  Jul 1992 - Sept 1992

  Summer Student

  - Employed in the inorganic analytical division.- Responsible for the physical preparation of environmental samples.

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  Ruhr-Universität Bochum

  Nov 1992 - Feb 1994

  Teaching Assistant

  - Teaching Assistant in a practical chemistry course for Medicine students.- Responsible for preparation of course laboratories.- Supervision of undergraduate students in chemistry.

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  University of Leipzig

  Mar 1994 - Jan 1996

  Teaching Assistant

  - Teaching chemistry courses for Dentistry students.- Supervision of undergraduate students in chemistry.

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  AstraZeneca R&D

  Feb 1999 - Dec 2012

  - Line Manager for 8 co-workers (PhD and MSc) and 2 contractors.- Chemistry Project Leader for a psychiatry project and collaborator in a major neurology project.- Discipline Leader for Medicinal Chemistry for the collaboration between AstraZeneca and Jubilant Biosys (Bangalore, India) overseeing 3-4 projects continuously.- Responsible for selection of contractors (selection of 8 synthetic chemists with high productivity).- Lean Sigma Green Belt.- AstraZeneca R&D Recognition Award in 2011 for achievements within Intellectual Property. Show less - Representative for the CNS/Pain Research Area (or later Innovative Medicines Unit) in the Compound Collection Enhancement Programme (CCE).- Main contact between AstraZeneca CNS/Pain and WuXi AppTec (Shanghai, China).- Delivery Team Leader for CNS/Pain CCE2 (global team of ca. 8 people from 4 different sites) during 2007-2008, which resulted in >41,000 samples for the compound collection.- Participation in the evaluation team for potential CROs for CCE3.- Delivery Team Leader for CNS/Pain CCE3 (global team of ca. 8 people from 4 different sites) during 2008-2010, which resulted in >63,000 samples for the compound collection.- Global Delivery Team Leader for all project libraries in CCE (team of ca. 11 people from 8 different sites) during 2011, which resulted in >21,000 samples for the compound collection.- Delivery Team Leader (jointly with Mike Stocks) for the High Content Recognition Library, leading a team of about 14 people from 8 different sites during 2009-2010. Main contact to ChemBridge (Moscow, Russia). Eventually, >43,000 samples were delivered to build this new collection. Show less - Line Manager for 5 co-workers (PhD and MSc) since June 2007, prior to that Team Leader.- Chemistry Project Leader for projects in cognition and analgesia.- Contributions to Compound Collection Enhancement 2 (CCE2) within library proposal generation, evaluation and prioritisation. Contact for the CRO performing the compound synthesis.- Participant in AstraZeneca's mentor programme.- Supervision of a postdoctorial fellow as part of the Global Ion Channel Initiative.- Supervision of an undergraduate student. Show less

  • Project Manager for iMed Site Change Implementation Team (iSCIT)

    Mar 2012 - Dec 2012

  • Team Leader Lead Identification and Lead Optimisation

    Apr 2010 - Aug 2012

  • CCE Delivery Team Leader

    Jan 2007 - Sept 2011

  • Team Leader Lead Generation

    Jan 2006 - Mar 2010

  • Team Leader Ion Channel Chemistry

    Jan 2004 - Dec 2005

  • Team Leader Multiple Parallel Synthesis

    Nov 2001 - Dec 2003

  • Senior Research Scientist

    Feb 1999 - Oct 2001
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  KeytoLead

  Dec 2012 - Sept 2014

  Co-founder and CEO

  Co-founder and CEO of the start-up company KeytoLead AB, December 2012 - September 2014.- KeytoLead delivers medicinal chemistry services within the early drug discovery phase. - Participated in several of Uppsala Innovation Centre’s business development programs. - Grant (“VINN NU”) from Sweden’s Innovation Agency VINNOVA.- SME participant in the EU-funded Innovative Medicines Initiative (IMI) project ENABLE.

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  Karolinska University Hospital

  Feb 2015 - Aug 2017

  Head of Special Laboratory Unit

  The Special Laboratory is a unit within the department for Clinical Pathology at Karolinska University Laboratory, Huddinge site. The about 30 membered staff conduct in-depth investigations in order to establish a reliable diagnosis. Besides histopathology, advanced techniques like immunohistochemistry, molecular analytics, DNA analysis, flow cytometry and electron microscopy are being used. The unit specializes on hematopathology, kidney- and transplantationpathology as well as neurodegeneration. Show less

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  Unilabs Sverige

  Aug 2017 - Apr 2020

  Business Development and Change Management within Laboratory Medicine, spanning the departments for Clinical Chemistry, Clinical Microbiology, and Primary Care. Facility management, automation, logistics, and organisational development are further assignments, as well as contributions within an IT change project. The 40+ staff at the Stockholm region for Clinical Chemistry is placed at our main facility in Huvudsta and at the laboratory at Capio St Görans hospital. For the latter costumer we provide 24/7 services. Our workflows are highly automated, quality controlled and to a large extent certified.

  • Business Development Manager, Laboratory Medicine, Stockholm region

    Dec 2019 - Apr 2020

  • Head of Clinical Chemistry, Stockholm region

    Aug 2017 - Dec 2019
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  RISE Research Institutes of Sweden

  May 2020 - now

  • Director Innovation and Processes (Chemical Processes and Pharmaceuticals)

    Apr 2022 - now

  • Director for Analytical Development (Chemical Processes and Pharmaceuticals)

    May 2020 - Mar 2022