Our Partners ensure translational feasibility and market access.

Prof. Andreas Meyer-Lindenberg

Director General, Central Institute for Mental Health (ZI)

Andreas is Director of the Central Institute of Mental Health, as well as Professor and Chairman of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy at the University of Heidelberg. Key Opinion Leader in its field, he received several awards such as the Prix ROGER DE SPOELBERCH in 2014, and CINP Lilly Neuroscience Clinical Research Award in 2016.

Bert M. Klebl

Managing Director, Lead Discovery Center GmbH

Bert is the managing director and CSO of the Lead Discovery Center GmbH LDC and is one of the directing managers of the KHAN-I GmbH & Co.KG fund, bridging the “valley of death” in early drug discovery. Bert has a broad experience in the industrial sector from former positions at GPC Biotech AG, Axxima Pharmaceuticals AG and Hoechst /Aventis.

Claudia Mayer

Coordinator International Cooperations, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ)

Claudia is Coordinator for International Cooperations at the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ). She formerly advised and assisted Prof. Otmar Wiestler in cooperation with the Helmholtz Association. Since 2009 she contributes in the determination of DKFZ’s strategy and programs.

Franck Lethimonnier

Health Technologies Institute Director, INSERM

Franck is Director of the Thematic Institute for Health Technology Aviesan, grouping the main stakeholders of life and health sciences in France. As such, he is also Director of the Thematic Institute for Health Technologies at INSERM, and coordinator of the French Genomic Plan for 2025.

Jacques Volckmann

Head of R&D France, Sanofi

Jacques is Vice-President, Head of R&D France at Sanofi, and a member of the Sanofi R&D Management and of the French Strategic Committee. He is also Chair of the Board “Bioproduction-ITS” Comité Stratégique de Filière, and President of the Board of the Pharmaceutical and Biologics Institute of Sciences in Lyon.

Caroline Dreyer

General Manager, BioValley France

Caroline Dreyer is the General Manager of the competitiveness cluster BioValley France, the leading cluster for health industry in Eastern France. Former President of SATT Conectus, she has over 20 years experience in innovation management and academic research valorization.

Michael Platten

Director of the Mannheim Institute for Translational Neurosciences, University of Heidelberg

Michael is Chairman of the Department of Neurology, University Hospital Mannheim, Director of the Mannheim Institute for Translational Neurosciences, Heidelberg University. He is a Key opinion leader in Neuro- and Brain Tumor Immunology, with its own research group at the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ).

Michel de Mathelin

Vice President, University of Strasbourg

Michel is vice-president for innovation and technology transfer of the University of Strasbourg. Since 2013, he is the Director of the ICube Laboratory in Strasbourg and Key Opinion Leader in the area of Engineering and Computer Science. He is co-founder of the SME Axilum Robotics, and a fellow of the Belgian American Educational Foundation.

Oliver Brüstle, Prof. Dr.

CEO, Life & Brain GmbH

Professor of Reconstructive Neurobiology, Bonn Medical Center

Oliver is Professor of Reconstructive Neurobiology at the University Hospital Bonn, and Co-Founder and Director of the LIFE & BRAIN GmbH. He is a key opinion leader in stem cell-based disease modeling and nervous system repair. He also is member of EMBO and senator of the German Academy of Sciences “Leopoldina”.

Ralf Kindervater

CEO, BioPro Baden Württemberg GmbH

Ralf ist director of the German cluster for Biotechnologies BIOPRO Baden-Württemberg GmbH since 2003. He also holds a honorary professorship of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technologies, KIT and is counsel for bioeconomies at the government of Baden-Württemberg since 2020.

Serge Braun

CSO, AFM Téléthon

Serge is CSO at AFM-Telethon since 2005. In addition he is Chairman of Genosafe, directing the scientific strategy for Neuromuscular Diseases at Genethon, and is member of the French National academy of Pharmacy. He formally cofounded the company Neurofit and was vice president of the industrial biotech cluster BioValley.

Wolfram Zimmermann, Prof. Dr.

Professor of Pharmacology, Goettingen Medical School

CSO, Myriamed GmbH

Wolfram is Director of the Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology at the University Medical Center Göttingen, speaker of the Göttingen partner-site of the German Center for Cardiovascular Research (DZHK), founder of myriamed GmbH, and Key Opinion Leader in human stem cell models and their application in drug discovery and drug screening.

Alain Beretz

Chairman

Former president of the University of Strasbourg, chair of the League of European Research Universities (LERU) and Director-general for research and innovation at the French ministry for higher education, research and innovation.

Ulf Nehrbass

Founder and Strategic Advisor

Former CEO of Institut Pasteur Korea and founder of the Biotech Qurient Therapeutics, Ulf founded Ksilink in 2013. In 2017 he became CEO of the Luxembourg Institute of Health. He is member of our board where he sits as scientific and strategic advisor.

André Syrota

Honorary Chairman

Member of the French Academy of Technologies and the Academia Europeae, former CEO of Inserm (2007-2014), Professor André Syrota was at the origin of Ksilink and its Chairman from 2013 to 2018. He is now Honorary Chairman of the association.

Dr. Cécile Martinat

Inserm director and iStem director

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Rejko Kruger

Prof. Dr. Director of Transversal Translational Medicine (TTM) at Luxemburg Institute of Health

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Onnik Agbulut

Professor, Sorbonne University

Valérie Mezger

Professor, Paris Cité University

Jochen Weishaupt

Professor, Medical School of Mannheim University

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