Prof. Dr. Andreas Busch
Member of the Bayer HealthCare Executive Committee and Member of the Board of Management of Bayer Schering Pharma
Since February 1st, 2007, Prof. Dr. Andreas Busch has been a Member of the Board of Management of Bayer Schering Pharma AG and of the Bayer HealthCare Executive Committee. In this function he is responsible for Global Drug Discovery.
Career
Busch, born on August 26, 1963 in Pirmasens, Germany, studied pharmacy at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main. After gaining a Ph.D. in pharmacology in 1989, he worked at several research institutes in Germany and the United States. In 1997 Busch was appointed head of cardiovascular research at Hoechst Marion Roussel, assuming the same position with Aventis as of 1999. As global head of cardiovascular research at Sanofi-Aventis, Busch was also responsible for the two research sites in Frankfurt am Main and Paris. He joined Bayer HealthCare in 2005, where he initially served as Head of Discovery Europe for the Pharmaceuticals Division in Wuppertal. Thereafter he was Head of Global Drug Discovery at Bayer Schering Pharma.
Before starting his career in industry, Andreas Busch was a Heisenberg Fellow at the University of Tübingen and the Max Planck Institute in Göttingen. He is also an Extraordinary Professor of Pharmacology at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt.
