2002 – present Co-founder and Senior VP Research of Phenex Pharmaceuticals Aktiengesellschaft, Ludwigshafen / Heidelberg, Germany (Project Leader for the LXR Project and Liver Tumor FXR Project) 2001 – 2002 Senior Director Drug Discovery, Head of Nuclear Receptor Research at LION bioscience AG, Heidelberg, Germany 2000 – 2001 Head of Roche Genetics Technologies, Preclinical Research Roche Basel, Switzerland 1998 – 2000 Group leader in Preclinical CNS Reseach, Roche Basel, Switzerland 1994-1998 Group leader of Eukaryotic Gene Expression in Preclinical Research Gene Technologies, Roche Basel, Switzerland 1991 – 1994 Scientific member at the Basel Institute for Immunology 1989 – 1991 Postdoctoral Fellow, Lab of Dr. David Beach, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, USA 1987– 1989 Scientific Assiciate, lab of Prof Dr. Hermann Bujard, ZMBH, Heidelberg 1983-1987 Diplom and PhD at the University of Heidelberg, lab of Prof. Dr. Hermann Bujard, Molecular Genetics and ZMBH, University of Heidelberg, Germany