Peter Stienen, PhD.

Research and Interests

Peter graduated in Biology from Radboud University Nijmegen, and obtained his Ph.D. from the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine at Utrecht University (The Netherlands) with a focus on pharmacology and electrophysiology. After a postdoctoral period in the same institution, he switched from academia to pharmaceutical industry in 2008. In the last 7 years, he has worked in different companies, ranging from small spin-off biotech to big pharma companies such as Ferrer Internacional (Spain) and AstraZeneca (Sweden). During these years, he worked in Research & Development towards the discovery and (pre)clinical development of potential new medicines, applying and gaining expertise in combining different technical platforms including pharmacology, electrophysiology, pharmacokinetics and imaging. In 2015 he joined the TBDO as Translational Research Manager, where his main role consists of designing and managing appropriate experimental studies and projects to bridge the gap(s) between research and commercialization.