Dries Cardoen received his Ph.D. from the Faculty of Biology at the University of Leuven (Belgium) in 2011.
After his academic career as a post-doctoral researcher, he started at Nelson Labs (formerly Toxikon Europe) in 2013 as study director in the Extractables & Leachables Department.
From the start, he specialized in E&L projects of inhalation drug products. He is currently leading the team of study directors that is specialized in E&L testing of inhalation drug products and topical and transdermal drug products.