Advisory Board

The Advisory Board of the individual Fraunhofer Institutes act as purely advisory bodies to their institute’s management. The members come from academia, industry, and government agencies.

The Advisory Board of Fraunhofer ITEM

As of February 2025

Chairman 

 

Prof. Clive Page, OBE, Ph.D.

Emeritus Professor of Pharmacology, School of Cancer and Pharmaceutical Science, King’s College London (UK)

Members

 

Dr. Karin Conde-Knape

Senior Vice President Global Drug Discovery, Novo Nordisk A/S (Denmark)

Prof. Susanne Herold

Director of the Clinic for Infectiology and Hospital Hygiene, University Hospital Giessen and Marburg

Prof. Edith M. Hessel

Chief Scientific Officer, Relation Therapeutics (UK)

Prof. Ralf Huss

Managing of BioM BioTech Cluster Development GmbH, Munich

Prof. Paul-Georg Germann

Global Head and Vice President of Chemical and Preclinical Safety (CPS), Biopharma, R&D, Discovery and Development Technologies, Merck Healthcare KGaA

Prof. Denise Hilfiker-Kleiner, Ph.D

President and Board Member for Research and Education, Hannover Medical School

Dr. Eckhard Schwenner

CEO Health-I Business Consulting

Anna Teschner

Head of the Division of Life Sciences, Humanities, Social Sciences and Academic Libraries, Lower Saxony Ministry of Science and Culture

Dr. Tewes Tralau

Head of Department Pesticides Safety, German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR)