Ludwig of Lonza Joins CDR Advisory Council

Center for Dermal Research (CDR) appointed Philip Ludwig, manager for global product development and applications at Lonza Consumer Care, to its advisory council. He 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, according to the company. 

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-Cos Asia), for being the best anti-aging innovative product (PCHi Shanghai), and being one of the four best new cosmetic ingredients (In-Cos Europe).
 
Prior to joining Lonza, he worked with Ball Horticulture in Chicago and created new nutraceutical ingredients extracted from plants bred specifically by the company.  He has an overall healthy passion for botany and a collection of over 80 plants.