Drug Hunter’s Post

🇩🇪 Drug Hunters in Frankfurt! 🇩🇪 Guten Morgen! Happy to finally meet old and new friends in Germany for the first time in Frankfurt! While the drug discovery community is less dense in the area, there is just as much excitement about new science, targets, and modalities as anywhere else. Many thanks to Martin Bossart, María Méndez Pérez, Volker Derdau, Thomas Maier and colleagues for kindly hosting us at Sanofi. I had no idea there was so much rich pharma industry history in the area! Thanks to those who joined us for dinner as well, especially those making the trip from as far as AbbVie Ludwigshafen (Marta Pinto) and Boehringer Ingelheim (Christian Kuttruff, Alexander Haydl). We were lucky the timing worked out to be joined by Elisabetta Chiarparin from across the channel and wonderful colleagues from Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany (Julien Lefranc, Alessia Gambardella, Heide Marika Düvel (née Genau), Ana Varela. Looking forward to our final stops in Ingelheim today and Bayer Wuppertal tomorrow thanks to Nicole Biber and colleagues. While many commented that there is not a "Boston-equivalent" city in Germany, there is something magical about being able to connect between growing scientific hubs in Germany, Switzerland, the UK, France, Spain, Italy, Poland and other areas with short train rides and flights. Can't wait to be back! Auf Wiedersehen!