Team

AnaPath is recognized for the scientific competence in toxicologic pathology, high operational speed and reliability. The field of experience is surprisingly wide for a young company due to our history. Therefore we have the strength to support development of pharmaceuticals, chemicals, agrochemicals, medical devices just to name a few areas. Furthermore, our work combines not only the core business of toxicological pathology but also neuropathology, inhalation pathology, bone marrow evaluations, immunological processes, pathology in unusual laboratory species (fish, amphibian, birds, and invertebrates), hard material techniques immunohistochemistry/TCR, foetal pathology and image analysis. Our clients benefit from the scientific excellence of our team in the areas of anatomy, toxicologic pathology, biomedical engineering, genetics or regulatory toxicology regardless if they need support in pathology re-evaluation of an unexpected finding or design a complex pre-clinical safety assessment package.

 

With more than 25 years professional experience, he started his career as DVM and later MS (biologist) at AWD Germed in East Germany, trained in human pathology in 1989/1990, before leaving in 1991 to join RCC Ltd Switzerland as a toxicologic pathologist. From 1992 onwards was Head of Pathology at RCC Ltd/Global Director Pathology Harlan Laboratories Ltd and from 1997 onwards as CSO of Harlan Inc. He joined AnaPath GmbH in 2005.

He is experienced in all laboratory species, including birds, fish and invertebrates, from short-term, long-term and oncogenicity studies with specialties in neuropathology, inhalation pathology, sperm and ovary staging and bone marrow evaluation.

She has more than 20 years professional experience. She started her career in human anatomy in 1990 at the Institute of Anatomy, Medizinische Akademie Dresden, Germany before leaving in 1992 to the Institute of Anatomy, University Bern, Switzerland and became in 2001 an independent consultant/teacher for anatomy. She founded AnaPath GmbH, Switzerland in 2005.

Pathologist with more than 18 year professional experience in academia and pharmaceutic industry. After graduation form the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine Bucharest Romania he started his career at the Institute for Diagnosis Animal Health in Bucharest Romania as DVM (Veterinary Specialist in Laboratory Diagnosis) and then worked as research scientist / molecular and veterinary pathologist at the Institute for Veterinary-Pathology, Justus-Liebig University Giessen Germany, at the Department of Pathology University of Veterinary Medicine, Hannover Germany and further as molecular and discovery pathologist at Novartis Pharma AG, Basel, Switzerland. He is holding a Dr. med. vet. title in Molecular Veterinary Medicine awarded with summa cum laude by the Justus Liebig University Giessen, Germany and the Graduate College “Veterinary Molecular Medicine” Giessen Germany and a PhD title in Pathology (molecular neuropathology) awarded by the University of Veterinary Medicine, Hannover Germany and the Center for Systems Neuroscience Hannover Germany. Robert Kreutzer is experienced in molecular and discovery pathology (i.e. evaluation of animal models), Neuroscience, Oncology and in advanced microscopy approaches (i.e. TEM, multispectral and confocal microscopy).

She started her career at the School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Zurich, Switzerland and worked as pathologist at the Institute of Veterinary Pathology, University of Zurich before joining RCC Ltd Switzerland/Harlan Laboratories Ltd in 2006 as a toxicologic pathologist.

She joined AnaPath GmbH in 2011. She is experienced in rodents and non-rodents in short-term and long-term studies.

Dr. Jürgen Laufs

With over 25 years experience in lifescience, Jürgen has a broad scientific background from drug target discovery to pre-clinical safety assessment. As Program Manager for the former Harlan Ltd (Switzerland) he managed over 35 Phase I enabling safety packages, before being appointed as Strategic Alliance Manager for major clients. Based on his cross-functional experience he manages the Safety Alliance at AnaPath and takes care of commercial business aspects.

Ing. BioMed. Nils Warfving

Nils is currently managing Special Technologies, Medical Devices and IT at AnaPath. Coming from the engineering disciplines, but with a lifelong passion for life science, Nils brings new perspectives to solve unusual challenges outside the scope of routine histopathology. He maintain and overview the IT systems and are currently involved in the set-up of a new LIMAS system. In the sector of Medical Devices he is leading both the commercial aspects and the study project management. Additionally, Nils is overviewing AnaPath’s internal and outsourced Special Technologies projects. At present, the capabilities of advanced artificial intelligence image analysis software is being explored and increased; opening up new possibilities for quantitative data evaluation at AnaPath.

Dipl. Biol. Abdallah Ben Abdeljelil

Ben Abdeljelil has university degrees in Biology and Biotechnology. He has more than 13 years of experience in pre-clinical CRO (e,g. Harlan Laboratories) where he held positions as study director, team leader and fetal pathologist. He has deep experience in the areas of reproductive toxicology, cytotoxicity, genotoxicity and molecular target localization and characterization. At AnaPath, in his role as Principal Investigator / Study Director, Mr Ben Abdeljelil is providing scientific support to client projects. Ben Abdeljelil is our fetal pathologist and is leading the immunohistochemistry/TCR laboratory.

Susanne Paepke

In 2002, she started her career as a laboratory technician in the pathology department of Harlan Laboratories Ltd. From 2013 onwards she moved to AnaPath GmbH in the same position and took over the responsibility of the principal investigator for histology and the organization of the laboratory, one year later. After this many years of experience in the GLP environment and the organization of the histology laboratory, Susanne moved to the position of Test Facility Manager in October 2016.

Nina Häuselmann

After solid experience at the laboratory bench of the Swiss pharmaceutical industries, Nina moved into the field of Quality Assurance. In 2005 she took over responsibility in QA  at Harlan Laboratories Ltd. (former RCC Ltd) in Switzerland. Later, Nina founded the Häuselmann Consulting GmbH and today Nina serves with her team as external QA provider to AnaPath where they also have their offices. In addition she supports international clients as independent QA auditors and consultants.

Dr. sc. ETH Zürich Roman Schönauer, Dipl. Natw. ETH

He is a cell biologist with a doctoral degree from ETH Zürich and with more than 15 years of experience in biomedical research. After his PhD in the field of muscle proteins, he moved on as a postdoctoral fellow to the University Hospital Zürich (Cardiovascular Surgery Research), where he focused on cellular/molecular alterations in cardiomyopathies as well as on cardiovascular tissue engineering. Starting from 2011, he was a senior postdoctoral fellow at the Institute of Anatomy, University of Bern, where he analyzed the role of several factors on membrane repair in human cells. He has a broad experience in cell and molecular biological research, immunohistochemistry, advanced microscopical techniques as well as image analysis. As principal investigator of studies in the field of immunohistochemistry and special technologies, he provides valuable scientific support to the client. He joined AnaPath in 2018.