Alexander Oksche MD, PhD

Alexander Oksche is Executive Director of Academic Alliances at Mundipharma Research GmbH & Co. KG focusing on R&D collaborations to advance scientific insights of internal drug development programmes. Alexander joined Mundipharma Research in 2006 to lead the internal R&D Innovation Process and later Pharmacological & Translational Science resulting in several drug development activities for the treatment of chronic pain. Alexander’s research areas cover classical and novel signalling pathways of G protein-coupled receptors and translational aspects of acute and chronic pain. He authored / co-author more than 40 peer-reviewed publications and of several book chapters. Alexander graduated as MD from Heinrich-Heine-University in Duesseldorf in 1992 and gained his PhD degree in Pharmacology and Toxicology from Charité Berlin in 2003. Since 2007 Alexander is lecturer in Pharmacology and has been appointed as Professor for Pharmacology at the Medical Faculty of the University Giessen