Dr. med. Roland Derwand, MBA

Roland is a German physician based in Switzerland. He joined argenx in November 2022 and currently serves as Head of Medical Affairs and Evidence Generation, International. He studied medicine at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, with placements at the University of Western Ontario in London, Canada, and Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas, USA. His doctoral thesis focused on cardiovascular physiology and received the Boehringer Ingelheim Prize in 2002. He worked as a physician and postdoctoral researcher at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich and earned an MBA from PFH Private University of Applied Sciences in Göttingen. Roland chairs the jury for the German Federal Ministry of Research, Technology, and Space funding initiative “KMU-innovative: Biomedicine” and serves as a reviewer for scientific publishers. He founded and moderates MedAffairs-AI, a LinkedIn community focused on the application of artificial intelligence in Medical Affairs. Over the past 23 years, he has held leadership roles at the national, European, and global levels across French, Japanese, German, and American pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies.