Henning Steinhagen

Biography

Dr. Steinhagen is a senior professional with over 17 years’ experience acquired in large and medium size pharma industries. He joined Aptuit from Grünenthal Germany, where he acted as Senior Vice President and Head of Global Drug Discovery since 2009. His accomplishments include a pronounced track record in multiple therapeutic areas as well as establishing several R&D partnerships, including the build-up of a novel therapeutic indication. Before joining Grünenthal, Dr. Steinhagen served for seven years at Sanofi-Aventis in positions of increasing responsibility in medicinal chemistry and started his career as medicinal chemist at Bayer, Germany. He holds a PhD from the University of Heidelberg, Germany, in Organic Chemistry as well as a minor degree in Molecular Genetics. His experience also includes a post-doctoral fellowship at Harvard University, USA, as well as senior academic appointments at RWTH University Aachen, Germany, and Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. He has published more than 50 publications, patents and book chapters. As President of Research and Development Operations, he is responsible for all operations at Aptuit’s R&D sites in Verona, Basel and Oxford. Dr. Steinhagen is also acting as Site Head of the Aptuit site in Verona, Italy.

Research Interest

biotechnology,bioinformatics