Khusru Asadullah's Biography

Khusru Asadullah, Vice President/Head of Global Biomarkers, Bayer Healthcare Pharmaceuticals AG

Khusru Asadullah is Vice President and Head of Global Biomarkers at Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals. Before this he headed Target Discovery and Inflammation and Immunology research at Bayer Schering Pharma. He is a Professor of Medicine at the University Hospital Berlin. He graduated from the Medical School Charité, Berlin and the Harvard Business School, Boston. He is a board certified Dermatologist and Immunologist. Over the past years he made several contributions in particular in translational medicine, cytokines, kinases and nuclear receptors. He published more than 120 articles in peer reviewed journals including in top journals such as Nature, Nature Medicine, Nature Reviews Drug Discovery, PNAS and J Clin Invest. He is a member of several international editorial boards. His current major research activities are in the fields of biomarker research and development.