Head of the Department of Brain Health, Wyeth Research Center, Lausanne, Switzerland
Dr. Pascal Steiner received his BSc from University in Lausanne, a PhD in Neuroscience from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in 2004, and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard Medical School in 2008. He then served as Director of Operations at Tilocor International, a biotech consortium, where he supervised the transfer process of drug candidate products from research towards clinical development. From 2010 to 2015, Dr. Steiner worked in the Neuroscience Department of Genentech in South San Francisco, leading an interdisciplinary team to discover and develop new drug targets in neurological diseases, including amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, Alzheimer’s disease and pain.
In 2015, Dr. Steiner joined the Global Health Institute in Lausanne, Switzerland and was then appointed Head of the Department of Brain Health. Its mission is to identify and develop innovative nutritional solutions to support brain throughout life, including programmes focusing on infant neurodevelopment and cognition.
