Reinhard Schinzel

Prof Dr. Reinhard Schinzel is Head of Research & Drug Safety Operations and in particular responsible for drug safety and pharmacovigilance in all clinical trials conducted by vasopharm. From 2008 to 2016 he was coordinating the pre-clinical and clinical research and development. From 2002 to 2008 he was also responsible for a diagnostics project, which was out-licensed successfully. He joined vasopharm from the Institute of Physiological Chemistry (University Hospital of Wuerzburg), where he worked for two years as an associate professor focusing on research of glycoxidative stress and degenerative diseases of the kidney and the brain. Prior to that, he was an assistant professor and group leader at the same institute with a research emphasis in the field of bacterial carbohydrate metabolism and diabetes research.

Dr. Schinzel received his Ph.D. in microbiology at/ the University of Wuerzburg, Germany. He gives lectures in biochemistry and cardiovascular biology at the University of Wuerzburg and is the author of more than 100 scientific publications, reviews, books and patents.