Juergen Schaefer's Biography

Juergen Schaefer, Mass Spectrometry Lab Head, Sanofi

Dr. Juergen Schaefer is currently Laboratory Head for Mass Spectrometry in Analytical Sciences, Lead Generation to Candidate Realization of Sanofi in Frankfurt. He received his Ph.D. in Chemistry from Prof. Michael Karas at Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt (MALDI-TOF-MS) and has 20 years of experience in Mass Spectrometry of Biopolymers. Since 2000 he worked in Protein Biomarker Discovery using Proteomics Mass spectrometry at Proteome Sciences. He developed Quantitative MS-based Techniques (e.g. TMT, Tandem Mass Tags) for Peptide and Protein Profiling. After joining Sanofi in 2009, he is mainly responsible for Characterization of Peptides and Proteins with Mass Spectrometric Tools in combination with Separation Methods for Analytical Sciences as well as for Characterization of Monoclonal Antibodies for Bioanalytics & Formulation in Frankfurt.