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Senior Director Clinical Development Biosimilars
Dr. Liedert, trained as a Clinical Pharmacologist, is familiar with both sides of the table, the
developers objectives and the regulators perspective on biosimilars development: Today he
is Senior Clinical Director, TA Biosimilars at Boehringer Ingelheim, guiding biosimilar
monoclonal antibodies and related molecules starting from Due Diligence, over
bioequivalence and Phase III studies to BLA/MAA (immunology, oncology) Across
programs he is Strategic Advisor for Extrapolation and Clinical Immunogenicity.
For more than 6 years he served as Head of Immunopharmacology at Merck Serono (FIM,
POC studies, companion diagnostics) and was in charge of the clinical design of Merck
Serono initial biosimilars programs in 2012.
Before, Dr. Liedert got insight experience of the Health Authorities perspective, when he
served as regulator at the Paul-Ehrlich- Institute (PEI), the German Federal Agency for
biologics. At the EMA, he represented the PEI and Germany in the Safety Working Party. He
was co-author of several guidelines, which focus on risk mitigation for early clinical trials,
immunogenicity and comparability/biosimilarity exercises.