Franz Hefti
drug discovery and development
Neurimmune
Switzerland
Biography
Dr. Franz Hefti is an expert in drug discovery and development for nervous system diseases. He has held senior management positions in several companies, including Avid Radiopharmaceuticals, Rinat Neuroscience, Merck & Co., and Genentech, and he was Professor at the University of Southern California and Associate Professor at the University of Miami, where he carried out seminal research on therapeutic applications of neurotrophic factors. He published over 250 papers on neurotrophic factors and topics in neuropharmacology, as well as a textbook «Drug Discovery for Nervous System Diseases». Dr. Hefti received his PhD from the University of Zurich and did his postdoctoral research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Max Planck Institute in Munich.
Research Interest
neurology
