studied pharmacy in Erlangen and received his doctorate in biochemistry in 1980. rer. nat. From 1980 to 1982 he worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Yale University, New Haven, USA. In 1990 he was appointed to the C4 Professorship for Pharmaceutical Biology at the University of Frankfurt, and since October 2013 he has been a senior professor at Goethe University. He is a member of the “Pharmaceutical Biology” committee of the Pharmacopoeia Commission at the BfArM and spokesman for the Wiss. Advisory board of the Federal Chamber of Pharmacists and biotechnology representative of the state of Hesse.