Heidemarie Schindl, Dipl.-Ing., is Head of the Department of Analysis of Biological Medicinal Products at the Austrian Official Medicinal Control Laboratory (OMCL), part of the Austrian Federal Office for Safety in Health Care (BASG). She also serves as Deputy Head of the Institute for Assessments and Analytics and as an assessor for biological medicinal products.
Before joining BASG, she held senior positions at Baxter BioScience in Vienna, including Head of QA/Assessments and Audits and GMP Officer for plasma protein production.
She earned her Diplom-Ingenieur degree in Food and Biotechnology from the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences (BOKU) in Vienna.
Her expertise includes quality control of biological medicines, official control authority batch release of vaccines and blood products, and GMP compliance.
Heidemarie is an EMA expert and actively contributes to several international bodies, including the EDQM Group 15 (Vaccines), the European Pharmacopoeia Commission, and the WHO National Control Laboratory Network for Biologicals.
She also contributed to the IMI2 VAC2VAC project on vaccine batch consistency testing, which promotes the 3R principles for animal welfare in scientific research