Our History

2001

BIOMAPAS Establishment in Lithuania

2002

Launch of Phase I-IV Clinical Research Services in Baltics

2003

First Clinical Trial in Belarus

2004

Clinical Trials with Biological/Biosimilar Products

2005

Launch of Full-Scope
Pharmacovigilance Services

2009

Launch of Regulatory Affairs Services

2012

ISO 9001:2008 Certification

2013

Launch of Clinical Safety / Medical Monitoring Services

2014

Office Establishment in Russia and Georgia

2015

Office Establishment in Switzerland

2016

Office Establishment in Ukraine

2017

Integrated ISO 9001:2015 and
ISO 13485:2016 re-certification

2018

Office Establishment
in Sweden

2019

Office Establishment
in Poland

Code Of Ethics

BIOMAPAS CODE OF ETHICS is a company guide to appropriate conduct. Most of the Policies in this Code are based on laws, regulations and business, ethical and basic work rules and principles. We require all staff to comply with high standards of honesty and integrity and always act with accountability. The purpose of the Code is to set common ethical and lawful standards which must be adhered by the Company. The Code applies to all service areas of Biomapas and must be followed by all staff, which include but are not limited to members of board, employees, vendors and contractors. Read Biomapas Code of Ethics HERE.

Our Mission

To combine the strength of our expertise, experience and high quality deliverables to advance clinical development, market access and post-approval support to the Pharmaceutical and Medical Device industries, and ultimately improve health of patients.

Biomapas is a functional and full outsourcing solution provider to the global life science industry, with key expertise in Clinical Trials, Regulatory Affairs and Pharmacovigilance. The company has significant presence across the CEE, Nordic and CIS countries thereby offering fast and reliable patient recruitment for Phase I-IV and medical device clinical trials, while regulatory and pharmacovigilance services are provided across 5 continents.

Board Members

Name

Vidmantas Fokas has co-founded Biomapas in 2001. Before becoming Chief of the Board, Vidmantas has been leading Biomapas as a Managing Director for over 10 years. His expertise includes clinical development strategies in EU and CIS, as well as extensive knowledge in business management. As a Chief of the Board, Vidmantas oversees business development, financial and commercial operations in order to provide his input in company's growth. With substantial knowledge in pharmaceutical industry, Eastern European and CIS markets, Vidmantas has highly contributed to the expansion of Biomapas into the CIS region. Being an urologist by training, Vidmantas also holds a Doctor degree of Medicine.

Name

Audrius Sveikata has over 20 years of experience in clinical research and regulatory affairs, holding executive positions within competent authorities, academia, pharmaceutical industry and professional associations. His expertise includes design and implementation of clinical development plans and regulatory strategies in EU. Prior to co-founding Biomapas, Audrius was Head of Clinical Assessors unit at State Medicines Control Agency of Lithuania. As a professor of pharmacology at Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, Audrius was involved in teaching and science with specialization in neuro-psychopharmacology. He is active as a lecturer in various life science conferences, a co-author of over 50 scientific publications.

Name

Adam Sherlock has joined Biomapas as a Member of the Board in 2020. Adam is a senior business leader in the life sciences industry, with over 30 years of experience in a wide variety of international commercial and executive roles. A microbiologist by academic qualification and a sales and marketing specialist by professional training, Adam has worked for a number of leading technology-enabled service providers during his career, leading them through significant growth journeys and creating outstanding shareholder enterprise value. He has an extensive network of contacts across the industry and investment sector, as well as a proven track-record with private financial and trade business owners.

Name

Petras Sveikata has joined Biomapas as a Member of the Board in 2020. Petras has been involved in principal investing and investment banking since 2015. Before assuming Principal’s role with the life sciences group Sveikata & CO, Petras was an Associate Director in the leading Baltic Investment Banking boutique Superia where he initially started as a 2nd year analyst. While with Superia Petras participated in both M&A and capital raising transactions in various sectors with the most recent transaction being the acquisition of the largest Lithuanian private clinic MediCa and Kardiolita hospital chains completed in September 2020. Mr. Sveikata holds a Bachelor's Degree in Economics from City University London.

Name

Aris Damušis has joined Biomapas as a Member of the Board in 2020. Currently, Aris is a partner at a leading law firm Martovicius & Damusis in Kaunas. He is assisting Biomapas with various legal and regulation related matters. Aris holds a Master’s degree in Law obtained at Vilnius University.

Management Team

Audrius Sveikata has over 20 years of experience in clinical research and regulatory affairs, holding executive positions within competent authorities, academia, pharmaceutical industry and professional associations. His expertise includes design and implementation of clinical development plans and regulatory strategies in EU. Prior to co-founding CRO Biomapas, Audrius was Head of Clinical Assessors unit at State Medicines Control Agency of Lithuania. As a professor of pharmacology at Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, Audrius was involved in teaching and science with specialization in neuro-psychopharmacology. He is active as a lecturer in various life science conferences, a co-author of over 50 scientific publications.

Juozas is a Chief Operating Officer in Biomapas and is overall responsible for company’s growth, execution and management of all operational departments and activities. He has successful track of records in managing business at the strategic level in various industries, such as insurance, logistics, utility with thorought experience in expanding and developing business in the Baltics, Russia, CEE.

Juozas holds MA degree of Economic from Vilnius University, graduated Leadership Development Program supported by RSA Insurance Group (London) and went through numerous business trainings.

Filip Risteski is finance professional who has diverse experience throughout his career. He was working in a professional services company as senior manager for 11 years, while providing assurance and advisory business services in different sectors such as financial, public, insurance, transport, retail, manufacturing, oil & gas, pharma and others. Filip’s professional experience extends to leading multi-country projects involving BIG4 Companies not only in the Baltics, but also the East, North, Central zones of Europe and also UK and the US.

In addition to audit and finance expertise, Filip has experience in different fields such as recruitment, employee learning & development, lecturing on various finance related topics, business valuation, tax & legal compliance, business development and recourse management. Filip holds degree in Business Administration, has ACCA accreditation since 2004 and is fluent in even in 5 languages!

Liudas Karnickas is a qualified attorney at law and an experienced professional in regulatory compliance, data privacy, R&D/technology management and IP protection matters. For more than 15 years he actively advises the life science industry, contributes to life science and data privacy NGOs and has been engaged in major legislative developments in the field. He holds LLM with distinction from Queen Mary University of London (the UK) and a Master’s in business law from Mykolas Romeris University (Lithuania).

Laimonas Sutkus is an IT infrastructure specialist experienced in both programming and IT team coordination. Before joining Biomapas, Laimonas was working as a chief technology officer in a company iDenfy. He has experience in creating and maintaining cloud-based platforms, working with artificial intelligence models and teams, coordinating the IT department, and ensuring high IT infrastructure security standards. Laimonas is working daily with cutting-edge technologies to ensure IT efficiency and security.

Jolanta has almost 20 years of HR management and Organizational Development practice in leadership positions of various international, local and public companies. She is experienced in building an organizational culture that supports business, creating effective people management, developing internal communication strategies, connecting all HR practices to a meaningful system, helping to close the distances between various team members and creating a great high performing team. Before joining Biomapas Jolanta Diskaitė was Head of Organizational Development at Vilniaus vandenys, where she was responsible for Organizational culture, HR, Office administration & Labor Safety.

Egidija Pauriene, MD, manages and ensures the quality systems. She helps guide the integration of the corporate strategies of Biomapas Group related to GxP Quality Assurance, regulatory compliance, including Good Pharmacovigilance Practice and ISO 9001:2015 standards. She has conducted and supervised GxP audits, as well as audits to CROs, and Suppliers. Edigija is a member of Research Quality Assurance, Investigator GCP trainer, Member of Society of Infectologist.
 

Regina Auskalniene is a Medical Doctor, cardiologist. She has over 13 years experience in Clinical Research gained in the world-largest CRO IQVIA working in different roles like Line Manager for CRAs and CTAs in the Baltic region, Sub-regional Lead for Europe for the Large Scale Functional Resourcing leading Managers in many European countries and having direct interface with the business partners- major global pharma companies, member of IQVIA Global Functional resourcing Leadership team. In the last role as a Global Operational Excellence Lead Regina was responsible for the global operational processes.
Beyond the responsibilities of her professional roles, Regina was a member of IQVIA Women Inspired Network, member of the IQVIA Training Board, Mentor for the junior colleagues in South Africa, Balkans, Spain, Switzerland, Germany, Nordics and was a Mentee of several IQVIA executives, has participated in many initiatives within IQVIA and in partnership with pharma companies.
Since Apr 2018 in CRO Biomapas Regina is leading Clinical Operations department, overseeing Clinical Monitoring, Project Management and Start-up activities in the region.

Olga Bernardova has over a decade of regulatory affairs experience, since 2005, she works in the life science industry concentrating on regulatory affairs and management of the life cycle for medicinal products. As a proven leader in regulatory affairs, Olga Bernardova has in-depth experience at regional and international level regulatory activities guidance and implementation. Before joining Biomapas, she was acting as Associate Director for Europe at ProductLife Group, and further back in her career working as Coordinator for Central Europe and the Baltics at Kohne Pharma, Regulatory Affairs and Pharmacovigilance Manager at Lundbeck, Associate Regulatory Affairs Manager at Gilead Sciences, Junior Regulatory Manager at Bayer and as Regulatory Affairs Officer at UMC.

Martijn van de Leur has over a decade of experience in pharmacovigilance and drug safety field. Martijn van de Leur graduated from RadBoud University with a specialization in Pathobiology and Oncology. Since 2005, he started to work in the life science industry concentrating in pharmacovigilance area. As a senior leader in pharmacovigilance and experienced (Deputy) EU QPPV, Martijn has a broad network within the industry and is a known industry speaker with excellent experience in drug safety. Before joining Biomapas, he was acting as Global Head of Drug Safety at Vifor Pharma, and further back in his career working as Pharmacovigilance Lead at Merck.

Indre Dryziene has a strong expertise in Clinical Trials, with over 12 years of experience in the CRO setting and management of clinical research activities across the European and CIS markets. As an experienced business professional, Indre was involved in the business development and strategic management of Biomapas. Over the last 10 years she held various positions, such as a Managing Director and Member of the Board. Indre holds a Master Degree in Business Information Technologies. On the top of it she is certified in Strategic Management and Marketing Strategy from ISM University of Management and Economics.

Ramune Rukiene joined Biomapas as Director Regulatory Affairs to further strengthen continued growth and geographic extension of Biomapas. Ramune graduated from Vilnius University with a speciality in Microbiology. Since 1999, she works in the regulatory affairs area. Ramune Rukienė is a regulatory professional with 20 years of experience in the regulation of biosimilars and biologics. Before joining Biomapas, Ramune was working in Teva as Global Regulatory Lead for biosimilar drug product and Global CMC Regulatory Lead for another biological product. Along with these activities, Ramune was Head of Regulatory Affairs at Sicor Biotech Vilnius manufacturing site for biotech products, where she supported manufacturing operations with regulatory supervision and was developing a strategy for CMC submissions. Moreover, Ramune has 10 years of experience working in R&D in the area of biotechnology, leading biosynthesis of rDNA technology-based protein products. Her professional expertise extends to leading MAAs in EU, Japan, Australia, Canada and the US.

Being a Pharmacist by training, Egle Pavyde has continued her studies as a PhD candidate in stem cell research. She is a co-author of 5 scientific publications. After working for 7 years in scientific research and 3 years in academia, Egle took a great opportunity to join CRO Biomapas as a lead in Regulatory Affairs Department. Managing personnel and a number of different complexity projects, she has gained a valuable experience from the operational side. At the same time Egle was responsible for business development of Regulatory Affairs Department. Anticipating to be more involved in company’s expansion, strategic planning and decision making, Egle has been transferred to Business Development Department, becoming responsible for BD activities of all 3 operational departments of Biomapas.
 

Oleg Kungurtsev joined Biomapas as Manager Clinical Operations in Ukraine office. He has over 17 years of experience in the Clinical Research industry. Oleg has started as a CRA at mid-size CRO and rapidly moved to a Project Manager position. Before joining Biomapas Oleg worked for a Global CRO, ICON, as a Senior Clinical Trial Manager for Clinical Operations Team. Oleg has graduated from St. Petersburg Medical Institute of Hygiene and Sanitation, qualified as a Medical Doctor.

Ioseb Qureli as Country Manager/Director of CRO Biomapas office in Georgia is responsible for the operational processes and team management. He has over 30 years of experience in medicine, science and clinical research. Ioseb held different scientific positions in Scientific Research Institution, also performed administrative tasks as a Head of Pathomorphological Department and as a Head of the Center of Clinical Diagnostics. At the same time, he worked as the associated professor in several medical universities and colleges in Georgia. Ioseb is a co-author of 12 scientific publications. He is a clinical research expert with over 10 years of experience in the field. His main activities include study start-up management, regulatory affairs of clinical trials, site selection and clinical monitoring, GCP and local regulation advise, negotiation with vendors, staff management. Ioseb is a medical doctor by training and holds a PhD in the field of pathology.

Open Positions



		

CHIEF ACCOUNTANT

Biomapas is looking for a Chief Accountant to lead our Finance team in Kaunas, Lithuania.

HEAD OF PHARMACOVIGILANCE OPERATIONS

Biomapas is looking for a Head of Pharmacovigilance Operations to lead our team with a focus on local and regional pharmacovigilance projects.

BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT MANAGER

Biomapas is looking for a Business Development Manager (Clinical Operations and Early Phase Unit) to take on a leading position and support our Business Development team.

CMC REGULATORY AFFAIRS MANAGER

Biomapas is looking for a CMC Regulatory Affairs Manager to join our Regulatory Affairs team in one of the EU countries.

REGULATORY AFFAIRS SPECIALIST / MANAGER IN RUSSIA (MEDICAL DEVICES)

Biomapas is looking for a Regulatory Affairs Specialist/Manager (Medical Devices) to support our Regulatory Affairs department in Russia.

REGULATORY AFFAIRS SPECIALIST IN SLOVAKIA

Biomapas is looking for a Regulatory Affairs Specialist to join our global Regulatory Affairs team and support our team activities in Slovakia.

MEDICAL WRITER

Biomapas is looking for a Medical Writer to join our Regulatory Affairs team. The position can be based in Lithuania or other EU countries.

PHARMACOVIGILANCE REGIONAL MANAGER (NORTH-WEST EU REGION) 

Biomapas is looking for a Regional Manager (North-West EU region) position for the Pharmacovigilance department. This is a remote global role.

PHARMACOVIGILANCE SPECIALIST (MEDICAL/CLINICAL SAFETY) 

Biomapas is looking for Pharmacovigilance Specialist (Medical/Clinical Safety) to join our professional pharmacovigilance team.

BACKEND-DEVOPS DEVELOPER

Biomapas is looking for a Backend-DevOps developer to support our IT team in Lithuania or remotely.

FULL STACK DEVELOPER

Biomapas is looking for a Full stack developer to support our growing IT team in Lithuania or remotely.

NLP SPECIALIST

Biomapas is looking for a NLP specialist to support our growing IT team in Lithuania or remotely.

IT SYSTEMS QA SPECIALIST

Biomapas is looking for an IT systems QA specialist to become part of our growing IT team in Lithuania or join us remotely.

TECHNICAL TEAM LEAD

Biomapas is currently looking for a Technical Team Lead to join our growing IT department.

Our History

2001

BIOMAPAS Establishment in Lithuania

2002

Launch of Phase I-IV Clinical Research Services in Baltics

2003

First Clinical Trial in Belarus

2004

Clinical Trials with Biological/Biosimilar Products

2005

Launch of Full-Scope
Pharmacovigilance Services

2009

Launch of Regulatory
Affairs Services

2012

ISO 9001:2008 Certification

2013

Launch of Clinical Safety / Medical Monitoring Services

2014

Office Establishment in Russia and Georgia

2015

Office Establishment in Switzerland

2016

Office Establishment in Ukraine

2017

Integrated ISO 9001:2015 and
ISO 13485:2016 re-certification

2018

Office Establishment
in Sweden

2019

Office Establishment
in Poland

Code Of Ethics

BIOMAPAS CODE OF ETHICS is a company guide to appropriate conduct. Most of the Policies in this Code are based on laws, regulations and business, ethical and basic work rules and principles. We require all staff to comply with high standards of honesty and integrity and always act with accountability. The purpose of the Code is to set common ethical and lawful standards which must be adhered by the Company. The Code applies to all service areas of Biomapas and must be followed by all staff, which include but are not limited to members of board, employees, vendors and contractors. Read Biomapas Code of Ethics HERE.

Our Mission

To combine the strength of our expertise, experience and high quality deliverables to advance clinical development, market access and post-approval support to the Pharmaceutical and Medical Device industries, and ultimately improve health of patients.

Biomapas is a functional and full outsourcing solution provider to the global life science industry, with key expertise in Clinical Trials, Regulatory Affairs and Pharmacovigilance. The company has significant presence across the CEE, Nordic and CIS countries thereby offering fast and reliable patient recruitment for Phase I-IV and medical device clinical trials, while regulatory and pharmacovigilance services are provided across 4 continents.

Board Members

Management Team

Open Positions