Members of the VBU Association of German biotech companies unanimously elected Uwe Gottschalk, vice president of purification technologies at Sartorius Biotech, to the board at their conference
With more than 210 corporate members, the VBU is the largest industrial biotechnology association in Germany, and has been working since 1996 in close collaboration with international organizations from the areas of biotechnology, pharma, and scientific knowledge and technology transfer.
Organisationally, the VBU is part of Dechema, the society for chemical engineering and biotechnology.
The election was held as part of the international European BioPerspectives conference held in Cologne, Germany.
As a member of the board, Uwe Gottschalk has now joined his colleagues on the board who are responsible for the activities of VBU: chairman Ulrich Behrendt from Roche Diagnostics, Martin Weber from Qiagen, Christine Lang from OrganoBalance and Peter Stadler from Artemis Pharmaceuticals .
"I am really pleased to work with this high-calibre board that serves as an interface between research and the real world in industry," said Gottschalk.
"At Sartorius, cooperation with partners from industry and science are an inherent part of our corporate strategy, which has a positive impact on our innovative strength.
"Our global presence will help German biotechnology companies create synergies in their international activities".
Uwe Gottschalk has been the vice president of purification technologies at Sartorius since April 2004.
Earlier, he worked at Bayer Health Care, and just before joining Sartorius, he headed the GMP protein purification unit in Wuppertal, Germany.
Moreover, the 45-year-old is dedicated to fostering research and science.
He additionally works as a lecturer for the first accredited master's degree in pharmaceutical medicine in Essen, Germany, and also holds lectures at the polytechnical college Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Lausanne, Switzerland.
For six years, he has also been active as a volunteer at the Friedrich-Ebert Foundation on the university committee for awarding scholarships to students.
