PREMIER - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- CEO, Partnership for Assessment and Accreditation of Scientific Practice GmbH ( PAASP )
Dr. Bespalov obtained his MD degree from Pavlov Medical University (St. Petersburg) and after completion of PhD studies in St. Petersburg and Utrecht held NIH-supported Fellowships at Medical College of Virginia (Richmond, VA) and Scripps Institute (La Jolla, CA). After habilitation (DMedSci) in 2000, Anton acted as a research director of Valdman Institute of Pharmacology. In 2004, Anton joined Abbott (later AbbVie) but maintained close connections to Pavlov Medical University where he is a professor at the Institute of Pharmacology and chaired the University's Scientific Advisory Board. During his tenure at Abbott / AbbVie as head of pharmacology department, Anton and his teams have brought several compounds into preclinical and clinical development, supported licensing and due diligence decisions. Anton has established and managed research contracts and collaborations with 100+ biotech companies, CROs and academic labs around the world. Founded and leads several international initiatives on preclinical data quality.
Job Titles:
- Chief Editor and Head of Scientific Publications, EMBO
Following undergraduate studies in Cambridge, Bernd received his PhD in 1992 from the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, London, for uncovering posttranslational regulation of the transcription factors c-Jun and c-Myc by the JNK and MAP kinases. He carried out postdoctoral research at the Ontario Cancer Institute, Toronto, the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle and at the University of Innsbruck. Bernd was associate and then senior editor at Nature from 1999 until 2002 and subsequently chief editor of Nature Cell Biology. He has been the chief editor of The EMBO Journal and Head of Scientific Publications at EMBO since 2009.
Job Titles:
- Program Director Life Sciences, DfG ( Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft )
Dr. Katja Hartig did her PhD in molecular biology/genetics 2001-2004 at the University of Bayreuth. She was DfG project leader and research scientist 2005-2007 in Bayreuth. Since 2007 Dr. Hartig employed as specialist at the DfG head office in Bonn. Since 2010 she has cross-divisional responsibility for the fields "handling of research data", infrastructures and Digital Change. Additional she is responsible for the subject "Epidemiology, Medical Biometry, Medical Informatics" as well as the technology- and methods platform for connected medical research (TMF). She is member of the dialogue forum of the medicine informatics initiative of the BMBF. Since 2016 Dr. Hartig is deputy group leader "Medicine" and since 2017 she is member of the DfG project group " Digital Change in Science".
Job Titles:
- Scientific Consultant Life Sciences, Volkswagen Foundation
Member of the promotion team "persons and structures" of the Volkswagen Foundation. Responsible for the areas natural- and life sciences of the Freigeist Fellowship Program. Prior to that, he was in charge of the areas evolutionary biology, biomedicine and tropical medicine.
Career: Study of biology, musical science, communication studies and philosophy in Münster and Bologna. Doctorate in natural sciences and postdoctoral studies at the Institute for Music Physiology and Music Medicine, Hanover, Germany. Since 2008 employed as scientific advisor at German Academic Scholarship Foundation and the Scientific Commission Lower Saxony, Germany. Outside of this, Mr. Grewe also has been working as business coach for academics since 2015.
Job Titles:
- Coordinator - Helmholtz Open Science
Dr. Paul Schultze-Motel has been working for the Open Science Coordination Office of the Helmholtz Association at Helmholtz Centre Potsdam (GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences) since 2010. His previous positions include stages in science administration at Max-Delbrück-Centrum für Molekulare Medizin and at Technische Universität Berlin as well as jobs in digital publishing with several educational publishers. He is a biologist and received his Ph.D. from Freie Universität Berlin.
Job Titles:
- Professor for Experimental and Translational Cardiology, MDC
- Professor of Experimental & Translational Cardiology at Max - Delbruck - Center for Molecular Medicine
Dr. Gotthardt is Professor of Experimental & Translational Cardiology at Max-Delbruck-Center for Molecular Medicine and Charité Medical School, Berlin. He has a track record of national and international collaboration including research initiatives (DZHK - German center for cardiovascular research with 28 German institutions), program project grants (SFB-TR/19 "inflammatory cardiomyopathy", DFG research group "Regulation and deregulation of muscle growth", DFG Research group "Structure, function, and regulation of the myofibrillar Z-disc interactome", BMBF E:Bio program CaRNAtion / coordinator Michael Gotthardt), twinning grants between basic scientists and clinicians (institutional and DFG funded), and graduate programs (TransCard Helmholtz Research School / coordinator Michael Gotthardt and the DFG funded MyoGrad program). He is currently collaborating with >50 researchers and provides research reagents and animal models to the community.
Job Titles:
- Director Department of Experimental Neurology, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin / Director of QUEST Center, Berlin Institute of Health ( BIH ) PREMIER Project Leader