Dr. Johannes Floeckner

--- Leading the R&D Information Systems unit supporting more than 500 end users in 3 research sites (Barcelona/Spain, Bad Homburg/Germany, Reinbek/Germany) -- Act as Business Liaison R&D and Information systems. -- Established and chair global R&D IT Governance structure to align IS project with business needs (prioritization), manage budget and resources, define 5 year R&D IS system map.

(1) -- Global Coordinator Bioinformatics, Coordinate bioinformatics research units from Bayer’s worldwide pharmacy research sites (Japan, US, Germany, Italy, UK) -- Elaborated global bioinformatics strategy -- Program manager for Bayer’s 15 Million US$ bioinformatics collaboration with Lion Bioscience. -- (2) -- Established and lead the Bioinformatics research unit at the Bayer Research Center Wuppertal, developing a bioinformatics infrastructure to support early phases of drug discovery.

(1) Established and lead the bioinformatics research unit at the Bayer research Center Kyoto, organized and provided basic bioinformatics environment for target identification and characterization. Designed and implemented an IS solution to support Genomics and Proteomics, including the development of a LIMS and data analysis tools; designed and implemented a project status tracking solution to early phases of drug discovery. -- Defined IT strategy for the research center