Nils U. Olsson, Ph.D.

Nils U. Olsson serves as our Senior Vice President, Technical Operations. Dr. Olsson has over 30 years of commercial and development Chemistry, Manufacturing and Control (CMC), Quality and Regulatory Affairs experience from the pharmaceutical, biotech and medical device industries. Prior to joining Viking Dr. Olsson held Vice President of CMC and Quality positions at various biotech companies in California, most recently at Cerus Corporation, a company focusing on securing safe blood, plasma, and platelet supplies for transfusion medicine, globally. Dr. Olsson has also been leading Regulatory Affairs CMC strategy for commercial and early-stage products at Gilead Sciences. Dr. Olsson earned a Ph.D. in Analytical Chemistry from Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden, and received postdoctoral training under a National Research Council (NRC) fellowship at The National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, Maryland.