Ilka Wicke

About

Ilka has obtained her PhD in organic chemistry from the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt. Following her graduation she spent a year as a postdoctoral fellow at the Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York investigating retroviral gene therapy approaches to stimulate antitumour responses. She joined Boehringer Ingelheim in 1996 as head of an interdisciplinary research laboratory specializing in new drug discovery approaches. Thereafter, Ilka spent more than 13 years in the Corporate Licensing Division of Boehringer Ingelheim where she was responsible for the evaluation, negotiation and the management of several global licensing transactions.

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Location

Frankfurt, Germany