Scientific Director and Co-owner, RIC, Kortrijk, Belgium

Visiting Professor, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium

Koen Sandra received a PhD degree in Biochemistry from the Ghent University, Belgium in 2005. After his PhD, he joined Pronota, a molecular diagnostics company where he was active in developing analytical platforms for disease biomarker discovery and in setting up external collaborations. In 2008, he joined RIC, a company that provides chromatographic, electrophoretic and mass spectrometric support to the chemical, life sciences and pharmaceutical industries, where he currently holds the position of Scientific Director.

As a non-academic scientist, Koen Sandra is author of over 40 highly cited scientific papers and has presented his work at numerous conferences as an invited speaker.

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Speaker for Keynote Lecture: In-depth characterization of biopharmaceuticals using micropillar array columns combined with mass spectrometry on September 27