Germano Carganico, General Manager of Toscana Life Sciences (TLS) foundation, has more than 30 years of experience in the pharmaceutical industry. He held several managing positions in R&D, first with Farmitalia C. Erba and later with Menarini Group, where he became Director of Corporate R&D. Throughout his career, Carganico has successfully developed and registered worldwide several new chemical entities, and has been founding partner of Pharma Quality Europe (PQE) and Regulatory Pharma Net (RPN), two leading consultancy companies in the pharmaceutical field. Before joining TLS foundation, he has served as Chief Business Officer at Axxam, a biotech company in Milan.