VITA | Khusru Asadullah, M.D.
Curriculum vitae
Prof. Dr. med. Khusru Asadullah, M.D.
Date of birth: 4/19/1967 Berlin, East Germany, German nationality, Married, two children
Professional and academic positions | |
since 07/2007 | Head of Target Discovery (Vice-President), BayerScheringPharma, Member of the Global Drug Discovery Project Review Committee. |
2006-2007 | Head of the Therapeutic Research Group Immunology and Inflammation (Vice President level). Since January 2007 based at the US research site in Richmond, USA. Member of the Global Drug Discovery Management Committee, BayerScheringPharma |
2005-2006 | Haed of the Corporate Research Business Area Inflammation, Schering AG and Member of the Corporate Research Management Team |
2001-2005 | Head of Corporate Research Business Area Dermatology, Schering AG and Member of the Corporate Research Management Team (from November 2002 to June 2003 on site presence at Berlex Bioscience, USA to create a dermatology research department) |
1999-2001 | Head of Experimental Dermatology, Berlin, Schering AG |
1999 | Habilitation / "Private Dozent" (Asst. Professor) for Dermatology at Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany |
1995-1998 | Head of Cytokine Research Group (interdisciplinary-immunology group) at the Department of Dermatology, Charité Medical School |
1994-1998 | Resident / Fellow at the Department of Dermatology (Head Prof. W. Sterry), Charité Medical School, Humboldt University Berlin, Germany |
1992-1994 | Resident at the Department of Medical Immunology (head Prof. R. von Baehr), Charité Medical School, Humboldt University Berlin, Germany |
Education | |
2007 | Professor of Medicine at the Charité - Berlin Medical School |
2006 | Graduation Advanced Management Program (AMP), Harvard Business School, MA |
2005 | Board certified consultant for Immunology |
1998 | Board certified consultant for Dermatology and Allergology |
1991 | Dissertation (Dr. med.) |
1991-1992 | Pre-registration period in USA, Switzerland, England and Austria |
1990 | Medical Diploma (Dipl. Med. / M.D.) |
1986-1992 | Student of medicine at Medical School (Charité), Humboldt University Berlin, distinction "Best medical student" |
1985-1986 | Pre-medical year, work at Intensive Care Unit, Dept. of Medicine Potsdam General Hospital |
1973-1985 | Polytechnical school and senior High School, Potsdam and Berlin, Germany |
Management and scientific qualification programs
- International Summer school on Immunology, Ionnian Village, Greece, 1998
- Leadership program / Schering Corporate University, Crainfield University, School of Management, England, 2001
- Individual management coaching 2002-2003, 2006-2007
- Team building programs of the CRMT and the CRBA-Management boards, 2002-2004
- Advanced Courseon Immunology, Stanford, CA 2005
- Advanced Management Program (AMP), Harvard Business School, MA, 2006
Professional memberships
- Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Dermatologische Forschung (ADF), since 1997 (Heading of the society office from 2001-2006)
- Berliner Dermatologische Gesellschaft, since 1997
- German Dermat. Society, since 2001 (Member of the strategy committee "Drug approvals")
- German Society for Immunology, since 2005
- German-Israel Society for Dermatology, since 2000 (founding member)
- European Society of Dermatological Research (ESDR), since 1996
- International Society for Cutaneous Lymphomas (ISCL), since 1997
- Society of Investigational Dermatology (SID), since 1997
- Chairman of the board of the German Skin Research Centre Foundation, since 2006
Publications
- Articles in Peer-Reviewed Journals: > 130 publications, with a total citation [impact] factor > 500; including top journals such as J Clin Invest, Nature Medicine, PNAS, Trends in Immunology, Pharmacology Reviews
- Chapters in Books: A total of 12 publications (For more details plaese see publication list)
- Professional patents: A total of 3 patent applications
- list of publications
Editorial and review responsibilities
- For Journals: App. genomics and Proteomics; Arch Derm Res; Blood; AITE; Br J Dermatol; SDT-Inflammation and Allergy (Guest Editor); Endocrinology; Exp Dermatol; EOET; EOID; EOPT; FEBSletters; Intern Immunopharmacology; J Clin Invest; J Dermatol Science; J Invest Dermatol; J Mol Med; Med Chem- AAI (Member of Advisory Board since 2001); Med Chem Reviews (Member of Editorial Board 2004-2005); Med Science Monitor (Member of Intern reviewers panel); Open Medicinal Chemistry Journal (Member of the Editorial Board since 2007; Open Dermatology Journal (Member of the Editorial Board since 2007); Open General and Internal Medicine Journal; Trends Pharacol Sciences; Trends Immunol/ Immunol Today
- For Foundations: Austrian Science Fund; ESRF; Swiss Nationla Fund
- Editor of 5 books, Guest Editor and member of editorial board of 6 journals
Management and leadership expirence
Build up and headed a department with overall responsibility for the work of about 100 FTEs in research projects in Germany and the USA. Responsibility for a function with a budget of 26 Mio € and 110 FTEs. Chaired a project on translational medicine, initiated and headed a project for globalisation, established and headed a multi-national management team. Developed a concept for merging two departments (inflammation and immunology research) and started to implement. Member of several international management boards. Initiation and supervision of several clinical, preclinical and translational studies.
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