Markus Zimmer's Biography

Markus Zimmer, Head, SANOFI

In 1995, Dr Markus Zimmer graduated as licensed pharmacist from the University of Saarland in Saarbrücken/Germany, where he received in 1997 his PhD in Pharmakognosy and Analytical Phytochemistry.
He worked as an Assistant production manager (WALA/Eckwälden) before joining 1999 the Analytical Sciences Department of Hoechst Marrion Roussel (HMR) – now Sanofi - in Frankfurt/Germany as lab head. In parallel, he completed the qualification as pharmacist specialized in Pharmaceutical Technology (2001) and Pharmaceutical Analytics (2003).
In 2006, Markus Zimmer moved to Sanofi in Montpellier/France as Head of “Chemical and Pharmaceutical Analysis Unit 2”, now responsible for the analytical development of new chemical entities up to clinical phase 2b.