Gerhard Müller, PhD

Head of Medicinal Chemistry

Gerhard has a striking track record both in drug discovery and entrepreneurship. Throughout his career, Gerhard has worked on a wide range of different target classes in numerous disease areas. Gerhard’s expert knowledge in medicinal chemistry allowed him to establish novel design paradigms, proven by over 75 peer-reviewed publications and involvement of projects that translated into DC. He recently co-founded Anavo Therapeutics and prior to that he co-founded Gotham Therapeutics. Besides that, Gerhard has hold key positions at Mercachem, GPC Biotech, Axxima Pharmaceuticals, Glaxo, Bayer, and Organon.
Gerhard received his PhD in organic chemistry from the Technical University of Munich, where he worked with Prof. Dr. Horst Kessler on anti-adhesive integrin antagonists.

Management team

Scientific Advisor

Director of Research 1st class at the CNRS, directing the multidisciplinary Chemistry & Biology, Modeling & Immunology for Therapy (CBMIT) team within the CNRS and the Université de Paris

Board Of Directors​

Scientific Advisory Board

Director of Research 1st class at the CNRS, directing the multidisciplinary Chemistry & Biology, Modeling & Immunology for Therapy (CBMIT) team within the CNRS and the Université de Paris
Chief Executive Officer of the Institute for Research in Immunology and Cancer at the University of Montréal
Professor of Target and Systems Biochemistry at the Faculty of Science of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Gardiner Professor of Biochemistry, and Deputy Head of the College of Medical, Veterinary and Life Sciences at the University of Glasgow