- Born in Berlin, Germany.

- Askanisches Gymnasium and Princeton High
School, Princeton, N. J. with a scholarship
by the American Field Service.

- Studied Medicine at the Universities of Berlin
(Free University) and Innsbruck, Austria.
Doctoral degree in Berlin 1959.
Internship and residencies at several Berlin
University hospitals.

- 1964 - 1966 fellow and research associate
at the Department of Medicine, Yale University,
New Haven, Conn. USA

- 1968: Faculty status at the University of
Heidelberg (Privatdozent).

- 1973: Adjunct professor of medicine in
Heidelberg.

- 1970 - 1981: Sandoz research Institute, Vienna,
Austria. As of 1979, Director of the Institute.
Thereafter until 1984: Director of world-wide
research and development, Sandoz AG, Basel,
Switzerland.

- 1985 - 1998 Founding member of International
Biomedicine Management Partners, Basel, Switzerland,
together with Fritz Bühler and Stefan Ryser. Investments
in private biotech-companies in the US and Europe.

- 2001 - 2004: Managing Partner in a new fund:
Bear Stearns Health Innoventures, New York.

- Active on several boards of biotech companies
in the US and Germany.

- Close to 300 scientific and science-related articles.
Author of several books, which were published by
Springer-Verlag Vienna, Springer-Verlag Heidelberg
and Springer-Verlag New York as well as Birkhäuser
Verlag Basel. Editor of numerous books on medical
topics.
During the last ten years increasing number of literary
productions: poems, short stories, novels.

- Lives in Munich and in Cureggia Tessin, Switzerland