Dr. Klaus G.E. Stünkel
Klaus looks back at almost three decades of experiences in medical/ pharmaceutical R&D and in the arena of business development and licensing.
He started his career in 1975 at the Pathological Institute of the Medizinische Hochschule Hannover installing the Immunopathology Laboratory focused on neoplasm of the lymphatic system. Following a study visit at the Imperial Cancer Research Fund, London, in 1978/9 he spent four 4 years in Munich running the laboratory with the responsibility for cellular immunology at the Institut for Haematology and Immunology, GSF, associated with the Klinikum Großhadern where he became involved into the bone marrow transplantation program.
Klaus started his industry career in 1982 in research at the pharmaceutical division of the Bayer AG, Institute for Immunology and Oncology, and held various positions in preclinical R&D until 1992. He then moved on to business development and licensing at Bayer Pharma with various and changing responsibilities as to business areas, functions and activities. Furthermore, he participated in several divisional interdisciplinary and international strategic task forces. His licensing activities also included Life Cycle Management and entire Therapeutic Area portfolio transactions. Around mid of the 90th and also in conjunction with own projects experiencing the status of ‘discontinued’ in late preclinical development Klaus followed his vision about offering and out-licensing of the so-called “assets” which to this time did not face any attention/attraction at big pharma. He very successfully started this kind of activity which after a while became fully implemented as a self-contained job description including an active asset management. During his time with business development and licensing he saw some more than a 100 negotiations ending with signature, and in several he acted as chief negotiator. He retired from Bayer in April 2006 after which he started consultancy activities.
Klaus holds a PhD in immunology from the Technical University Hannover, is author/ co-author of 60 publications in international journals and proceedings of scientific congresses and is inventor/ co-inventor of about 20 patents. He also was invited speaker on several occasions, such as at the Annual Congress of the European Transplantation Society, Barcelona, at Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Department of Surgery, Boston.
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