Steffen Weinbrenner
Head of Discovery
Pharmaceuticals
Polyphor
Switzerland
Biography
Steffen Weinbrenner, Ph.D., joined Byk Gulden GmbH in 1996 as a research scientist working in the field of Combinatorial and Medicinal Chemistry on several drug discovery projects. In 2003 he was appointed Head of Department Lead Finding Chemistry at Altana Pharma AG. In 2007 he was promoted to Director of Global Medicinal Chemistry at Nycomed overseeing synthetic chemistry, chemical outsourcing, molecular modeling and drug design at sites in Konstanz (Germany) and Mumbai (India). In 2009 he became Director Discovery Technologies. In 2011 he joined Polyphor as Head of Project and Alliance Management. He obtained his Ph.D. on the total synthesis of cyclopeptidic natural products in 1995 under the supervision of Prof. Dr. U. Schmidt at the University of Stuttgart.
Research Interest
Business
