Bastiaan J deLeeuw is presently Sr. Director and General Manager of Corbion Biomaterials in Gorinchem (The Netherlands), responsible for the manufacturing operations in The Netherlands and all commercial operations in EMEA and Asia. Corbion Biomaterials is a leading global supplier of GMP-grade bioresorbable polymers for use in medical implant devices as well as controlled release drug formulations.
Bastiaan has been active in the field of drug delivery for the last 25 years and an active member of the Controlled Release Society, including a being a member of the Finance Committee since 2015. Throughout his career he has served in a wide variety of commercial and operational roles and led projects covering dry-powder formulation development, inhaler design and development, and auto-injector design and development, as well as the associated stages of clinical and regulatory evaluations. In addition, he led the initial clinical evaluation of urologic diagnostic tests at NovioGendix (now MDxHealth) and has worked at Focus Inhalation, Akela Pharma, Oval Medical, Bespak, and Cambridge Design Partnership.
He holds a degree in biopharmaceutical sciences from Leiden University in The Netherlands where he graduate on the use of polymeric drug delivery systems for oral peptide delivery.
