Prof. Dr. Rolf G. Werner

Prof. Dr. Rolf G. Werner is Corporate Senior Vice President of the Corporate Division Biopharmaceuticals at Boehringer Ingelheim GmbH and responsible for the strategic orientation and the worldwide business of biopharmaceuticals.

He obtained his M.Sc. in biology at University of Tübingen in 1971. After his scientific work at the Max-Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics in Berlin he obtained his PhD at University of Tübingen in 1973.

In the same year he joined Boehringer Ingelheim at the Department of Biological Research and has been involved in antibiotic research. After a sabbatical in 1978 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, USA, he returned to Boehringer Ingelheim and became Head of Biopharmaceutical Manufacturing.

In 1990 he was appointed as professor at the Faculty of Biology at the University of Tübingen. He is member of the scientific board of the University of Stuttgart and the Fraunhofer Gesellschaft, member of the editorial board of the journal Drug Research and expert agrée for registrations of pharmaceuticals in France.

From 1998 to March 2000 he was head of the Industrial Biopharmaceutical Department at the Boehringer Ingelheim GmbH and therefore responsible for the development and manufacturing of biopharmaceuticals at various sites of Boehringer Ingelheim. According to the importance of this growing business this department became Corporate Division and Prof. Werner was promoted as the Corporate Senior Vice President in March 2000.

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