Giustino Di Pretoro, PhD
The Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson
Associate Director Drug Product Development - Continuous Manufacturing
Giustino Di Pretoro is an Associate Director at Janssen Pharmaceutica, a Johnson & Johnson Company. Dr. Di Pretoro is a subject matter expert and drug product development lead for continuous manufacturing, and coordinator for a series of academic collaborations within the field.
Before joining Johnson & Johnson, Giustino was Team Leader and Principal Scientist at Novo Nordisk AS (DK), where he was heading a formulation team focusing on oral delivery of biomolecules, and prior as R&D and Business Development Manager for a Swiss CMO, focussing on novel technologies for particle size reduction and solubility improvement of class II BCS drugs.
Giustino holds a Ph.D. in Pharmaceutical Technology and Msc. in Industrial Pharmacy, from the University of Milan (I). Within his Ph.D. he worked as Research Scientist at the University of Cambridge (UK) in the Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology department, and later as visiting postdoc in Pharmaceutical Technology at the University of Düsseldorf (DE).
Before joining Johnson & Johnson, Giustino was Team Leader and Principal Scientist at Novo Nordisk AS (DK), where he was heading a formulation team focusing on oral delivery of biomolecules, and prior as R&D and Business Development Manager for a Swiss CMO, focussing on novel technologies for particle size reduction and solubility improvement of class II BCS drugs.
Giustino holds a Ph.D. in Pharmaceutical Technology and Msc. in Industrial Pharmacy, from the University of Milan (I). Within his Ph.D. he worked as Research Scientist at the University of Cambridge (UK) in the Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology department, and later as visiting postdoc in Pharmaceutical Technology at the University of Düsseldorf (DE).