NovImmune Nominates Klaus Strein as New Member of the Board of Directors
NovImmune announced that Klaus Strein was nominated member of the Board of Directors.
Prof Klaus Strein holds a Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of Heidelberg and is also qualified as an M.D. specialized in pharmacology and toxicology. Prof Strein joined Boehringer Mannheim (BM) as Head of Cardiovascular Pharmacology in 1979. Over the years, he became Head of Pharmacology and Head of Research and Development Medicine, and joined the Executive Board of BM 1995, becoming Head of Pharma in 1997.
After BM was taken over by Roche in 1998, Prof Strein moved first to Basel and then to Penzberg (Germany), where in 1998/99 he became Head of Pharma Research. In 2001/2002, Prof Strein and his team in Penzberg launched the Roche Therapeutic Protein Initiative. Prof Strein was assigned global responsibility for the generation and molecular engineering of therapeutic proteins/monoclonal antibodies at Roche.
In August 2009, Prof Strein moved to Basel and took over as ad interim Global Head of Pharma Research; he was instrumental in the formation of the new global division Pharma Research and Early Development (pRED) in early 2010. Since January 2010, he is in charge of all Pharma Research and Early Development (pRED) activities in connection with the generation, optimization, early technical development and formulation of small molecules, therapeutic proteins, RNA therapeutics and therapeutic stem cells.
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