Scientific Advisory Board


Prof. Wolfgang Wurst, co-founder

Prof. Wurst is head of the Institute of Developmental Genetics at the National Research Centre for Environment and Health (GSF) in Munich. He has longstanding expertise in neural development and molecular neurogenetics. He provides important advice in the establishment of animal models of depression disorders and generates knock-out animals for Affectis' targets.

Prof. Karl-Heinz Altmann

Prof. Altmann is head of Pharmaceutical Biology at the Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich. Previously, he worked for over 10 year at Novartis where he became Global Head of Chemistry at Novartis' Institutes of Biomedical Research. Prof. Altmann contributes vital counsel on chemistry, pharmacological profiling and the identification of new drug candidates.

Prof. Hugo Kubinyi

Prof. Kubinyi has had a distinguished career that began at Knoll AG, and later at BASF AG, where he was responsible for molecular modelling, X-ray crystallography, and combinatorial chemistry. He is Professor of Pharmaceutical Chemistry at the University of Heidelberg. Prof. Kubinyi provides essential knowledge to Affectis regarding drug design, chemical optimisation of lead structures and SAR.

Prof. Walter Stühmer

Prof. Stühmer is Director of Molecular Biology of Neuronal Signals at the Max-Planck Institute for Experimental Medicine. Prof. Stühmer supplies Affectis with valuable insight into neural signalling, ion channels, and electrophysiology.


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