Philip Ludwig, manager for Global Product Development and Applications at Lonza Consumer Care, has been appointed to the advisory council of the Center for Dermal Research (CDR).
Philip’s role will be to provide valuable input and strategic guidance in support of the CDR’s aim to be the leading dermatopharmaceutics research centre in New Jersey conducting studies on topical and transdermal compound delivery, skin biology and skin tissue engineering. The CDR will also provide quality educational opportunities for its members through workshops, seminar series, symposia and courses.
At Lonza Consumer Care, Philip Ludwig develops new botanical extracts, discovers innovations in growing plant tissue cultures that produce exciting new actives and leads his team to find efficacious and novel microbial ferments, purified phytochemicals and synthetic chemistries. Mr Ludwig has written multiple patents relating to new personal care ingredients and has been a featured speaker at over a dozen industry events and seminars. His most recent two products, ReGeniStem Red Rice and Vivillume, have won four international awards for being the most innovative cosmetic ingredient (two years in a row at in-cosmetics Asia), for being the best anti-ageing innovative product (PCHi Shanghai), and being one of the four best new cosmetic ingredients (incosmetics Europe).
