Books By Ulrich A.K. Betz - Author

Dr. Ulrich A.K. Betz, Vice President of Innovation at Merck, is responsible for innovation management and strategic academic collaborations. He is an accomplished R&D manager with more than 20 years of experience in the pharmaceutical and chemical industry, including positions in the President’s Office at Merck Biopharma, and positions reporting directly to the Heads of Research and Development at Bayer and Merck. In his current role, for example, he designed and implemented the Merck Innovation Cup, the Curious2018 – Future Insight Conference, the Merck Future Insight Prize, the Darmstadt Science Declaration, the idea competition innospire and the BioMed X Outcubator. Prior to joining Merck in 2005, he worked at Bayer AG for seven years, in various scientific and managerial positions in Pharma Research. Ulrich received his PhD in functional genomics and immunology from the University of Cologne, Germany, and his diploma in biochemistry and physiological chemistryfrom the University of Tübingen, Germany.