Günter Schmidt

Vice President, Image Data Sciences at AstraZeneca Computational Pathology GmbH

Munich, Bavaria, Germany

About

computational pathology biomarker research and development in oncology, product strategy and management, investor relations, business strategy, intellectual property management, inventor of 20+ patents, artificial intelligence and deep learning, software development C++, Java and Python, acquisition and management of public funded research projects

Experience

  • Vice President, Image Data Sciences at AstraZeneca Computational Pathology GmbH
    May 2020 - Present · 6 yrs 2 mos

    Supporting and shaping the AZ Oncology drug and biomarker pipeline with AI-based computational pathology. Contributing to the AZ Oncology R&D Data Science and AI strategy and implementation.

  • Vice President Research at Definiens GmbH
    Nov 2019 - May 2020 · 7 mos

    Definiens GmbH is a part of the AstraZeneca Oncology Translational Science organization.

  • Definiens AG (Munich · On-site)
    • Vice President, Research
      Jan 2012 - Nov 2019 · 7 yrs 11 mos

      Responsible for technology strategy, scientific research team, and global intellectual property strategy and management

    • Director Product and Intellectual Property Management
      Jun 2010 - Jan 2012 · 1 yr 8 mos

      Responsible for all Definiens products, and the Definiens patent and trademark portfolio

    • Head of Research
      Jan 2010 - Aug 2010 · 8 mos

      Heading the Definiens research team, responsible for BMBF and BFS public funded research projects

  • Definiens AG (Munich · On-site)
    • Senior Scientist, Intellectual Property Management
      2005 - 2009 · 4 yrs

      Responsible for all Intellectual Properties (IP) and the global IP strategy. Project lead in eCognition related research activities.

    • Product Manager Proteomweaver
      Jan 2004 - Dec 2004 · 1 yr

      Proteomweaver is the leading software to analyse automatically 2D gel electrophoresis images. Responsible for Product Development (C++), Marketing and Support. Successful asset sale in 2005 to Bio-Rad Laboratories.

    • Director Life Sciences Informatics
      Jan 2002 - Dec 2003 · 2 yrs

      Responsible for all Definiens activities in Systems Biology with focus on extracting protein networks from text and integrating proteomic data from 2D gel electrophoresis and cell-based assays.

  • Head of Knowledge Management and Simulation at Delphi Creative Technologies GmbH
    Mar 1999 - Dec 1999 · 10 mos

    Project Manager eSight, an object-oriented simulation toolkit, software design and implementation (Java), Head of the modelling group.for dynamic systems in economics and ecology.