Stefan Mühlebach
Stefan Mühlebach is a pharmacist and pharmacologist by training. After his PhD in 1979, he got his venia docendi in 1991 from the University of Bern and in 2000 from the Medical Faculty of Basel University. Till 2005 he was (part-time) researcher and teacher at the Institute of Pharmacology of Bern investigating on persistent environmental contaminants as model compounds in pharmacokinetics. He was appointed Professor for Pharmacology and Hospital Pharmacy in 2004 at the Medical Faculty of Basel. Since 2020 he is prof. emeritus with continued lecturing and research as a member of the Division of Clinical Pharmacy & Epidemiology. He directed 13 PhD theses on pharmacology, hospital pharmacy, and clinical nutrition topics. His publication list consists of almost 250 peer-reviewed papers and book chapters.
Stefan Mühlebach worked from 1980-2005 as chief hospital pharmacist in Biel and Aarau where he was also member of the Hospital Board and Head of the Department of Central Medical Services. After a sabbatical at the Harvard Medical School in Boston in 2005, he joined Swissmedic as Head of the Pharmacopoeia and of the Swiss Delegation at the EDQM (Strasbourg; Ph.Eur).
From 2008-2019 he entered pharmaceutical industry starting as CSO of the Swiss affiliate and becoming then global Regulatory Science Lead for Non-Biological Complex Drugs (NBCDs, nanomedicines) at the international headquarter of Vifor Pharma in Zürich.
He chaired the public-private partnership NBCD Working Group at Lygature in Leiden NL.
In a part-time engagement he was Head Therapeutic Products at the Federal Office for National Economic Supply (2011-2021) challenged by increasing drug supply issues. During the pandemic 2020-2022 he led the working group of COVID-19 vaccines’ logistics at the Federal Office of Public Health.
Stefan Mühlebach served as (honorary) member of different professional (inter-) national organizations and advisory boards. He got a honoris causa doctor’s degree from the Semmelweis University in Budapest in 2019.
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