Biography
Florian is a Managing Director at the Novartis Venture Fund in Basel, Switzerland.
Prior to joining Novartis Venture Fund, he worked as a Scientific Manager for the R&D Committee of the Novartis Board of Directors and, before that held various scientific and drug discovery roles at the Novartis Institute of Biomedical Research (NIBR) including as Laboratory Head in target discovery and in early clinical research as Translational Medicine Expert, Autoimmunity.
Florian received his MSc degree in Biochemistry from Free University Berlin and his PhD degree with great distinction in Biochemistry from Ruhr University Bochum and completed his post-doctoral training at NIBR in Switzerland. He currently serves on the board of directors of Anaveon (CH), FoRx Therapeutics (CH), Amphista Therapeutics (UK), Granite Bio (CH) and is a board observer on Arctos Medical (CH).