Before joining Qarad, Agnes worked for major companies such as Sanofi Diagnostics Pasteur, Innogenetics N.V. (now: Fujirebio) and Genzyme where she held functions in R&D (development of immunodiagnostic assays for microbiological markers, HIV and HCV), Quality Control (batch release, method validation and implementation of statistical process control) and Regulatory Affairs (compilation of registration files).