Luigi La Vecchia's Biography

Luigi La Vecchia, Director, Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research

Luigi La Vecchia did his PhD 1989 at the University of Saarbruecken, Germany. Thereafter, he joined Sandoz as Lab Head of the Research Kilo lab. Between 1993-1994 he made a sabbatical at the Sandoz Research Institute/ Chemical Development in East Hanover, NJ. In 1996 he took over a position as Lab Head Process R&D in Chemical Development in Basel, Switzerland. Since 1998 he has been assuming various positions within the Novartis Institute for Biomedical Research, Basel, Switzerland. Currently, he is Director of the GDC Synthesis and Technologies group. He was involved in projects such as RAD001 (Certican, Affinitor), QAB149 (Indacaterol) and NIM811.