Darmstadt, Hesse, Germany
Responsible for scouting, evaluating, executing and managing external R&D opportunities such as strategic academic alliances, public private partnerships, as well as strategic partnerships with biotechs and research institutions. In addition involved in several open innovation initiatives.
Leading a group of 12 people (4 scientist and 8 technicians) over 3 laboratories, team leader of different OA discovery programs (internal and with external collaboration partner) and one global OA program, regular presentation of program status and strategy to senior management, manage interfaces to other functional units (e.g., Translational OA, Medicinal Chemistry, NBE Technologies, Non-Clinical Development, Early Clinical Development, Patents, Business Development), responsible to organize and conduct exploratory research within his field of expertise to enable validation of a target and/or approach, contribute to evaluation of in-licensing opportunities and related due diligences, support Function Head planning activities (e.g. new research facility, budget)
Head of an in vivo pharmacology laboratory in the field of osteoarthritis. With the focus on behavioral experiments and the stereological analysis of histological sections.
Developement of different animal models for CNS diseases (chronic pain, brain trauma and glioblastom) / Testing of genetical modifed cells as drug releasing systems / Planning and execution of experiments in the field of chronic pain for the BMBF joint project TENNIS („Tissue Engineering of neuro-implants for paintherapy“), annual reports and cost control
Regeneration and stimulation of peripheral nerve fibers BMBF Project: „Neurons microprobe"
Neuropharmacological manipulation of mutant rats, image analysis, neuropathological examinations, HPLC for the detection of monoamines, In vivo-electrophysiology of single neurons, stereotactic operations, behavior