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Pieter Jacobs is Head of Manufacturing Sciences & Technology (MS&T) at Legend Biotech Europe. He holds a PhD in Biotechnology from Ghent University and VIB. Following a post-doc at Harvard Medical School and the Brigham & Women’s Hospital in Boston, he moved from academia to industry, holding MS&T leadership positions at Sanofi, Biogen and UCB, where he was involved in several greenfield projects, setting up local MS&T teams, leading technology transfers and supporting the start-up of routine manufacturing operations.