Speakers

Strategic leader with over 20 years of experience in the biotech and pharmaceutical industry, specializing in target discovery/validation and preclinical drug discovery.  
 
Chemist by training with extensive expertise in ‘Omics technologies and functional genomics.  
 
Over 15 years of experience leading interdisciplinary line and matrix teams, including key R&D-priority initiatives.  
 
Established scientist with a track record in the development and application of proteomics and chemical biology approaches for target discovery and mechanism-of-action studies of bioactive molecules.  
 
I'm an inventor on several patents including Cellzome’s Kinobeads™ technology, have co-authored more than 100 publications (h-index 64, Google Scholar), and serve as a reviewer for reputed journals and funding bodies and as a member of the editorial board of Molecular and Cellular Proteomics.  
Research awards include the Life Science price of the German Society for Mass Spectrometry, in 2016 and the MCP Lectureship, in 2019.