Claus-Michael Lehr
Head, Department of Drug Delivery, Helmholtz-Institute for Pharmaceutical Research Saarland, Helmholtz Center for Infection Research (HZI), Saarland University
Meet Claus-Michael Lehr
“I am passionate about the convergence of scientific challenges required to safely deliver drugs across biological barriers. Drug delivery is like a triathlon you must be good in more than one discipline – biology, chemistry, physics, medicine and engineering – to reach your goal. When we started our new Helmholtz Institute a few years back, I realized that there are many unexplored needs and opportunities for advanced drug delivery research in the context of infectious diseases.
“I would like to see drug delivery considered as a subject of strategic research rather than a mere development task of ‘formulating’ a given active molecule for (pre)clinical testing.”