- Board member of Roche Group
- Ex-CEO Roche Pharma
- Board member of Chugai and member of the Advisory Board of Genentech
- Board member of Shire and Crucell
- Aventis Foundation trustee
- Board member of Sanofi-Aventis
- Vice Chairman of Epigenomics AG
- Professor at the Faculty of Clinical Medicine Mannheim, University of Heidelberg
- Co-founder of the Tilocor Life Science biotechnology group
- Former Professor at the School of Medicine in Lausanne
- Professor, Vice President and Research Director at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne
- Chairman of Helsana Group and BB BIOTECH AG
- Director of the Institute of Pharmaceutical Medicine at the University of Basel
- Chairman of the Management Board and Scientific Director of the German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg
