Keynote Speaker
Phytovalley Tirol - Innovative plant research for industrial applications to strengthen the Tyrol location | Günther Bonn - Austrian Drug Screening Institute GmbH
Günther K. Bonn, born in Innsbruck, is professor emeritus of analytical chemistry at the University of Innsbruck and chief executive officer and scientific director of the Austrian Drug Screening Institute (ADSI).
Prof. Bonn studied chemistry and physics at the University of Innsbruck, habilitated in analytical chemistry and was, after research stays at Yale University (USA), appointed professor of analytical chemistry at the University of Linz in 1991. In 1994, he became appointed professor at the University of Innsbruck and from 1995 to 2022 he headed the Institute of Analytical Chemistry and Radiochemistry. In 2014 Prof. Bonn received an Honorary Doctorate Degree at the Medical University Lublin.
Furthermore, Prof. Günther Bonn has long-time industry connections and leads numerous scientific projects together with industrial companies in Austria and abroad. In this context, he also serves as a board member in several companies. Since 2012 he is the scientific director of the Austrian Drug Screening Institute (ADSI), which is a new research enterprise of the University of Innsbruck that offers analytical and biological screening services for phytopharmaceutical and phytocosmetic companies, for food and food supplement industry as well as for academic research institutions. Since 2019 Prof. Bonn is also CEO of the Austrian Drug Screening Institute and is the founder of the Phytovalley®-Tirol initiative. His research focus is mainly based on the development of new, selective and sensitive methods in phytochemistry, metabolomics, proteomics, separation science and drug screening.
Prof. Bonn has held and continues to hold important positions in science and research policy committees in the university and non-university sectors, serves as Honorary Consul of Georgia in Tyrol and was also involved in Science politics as: Vice President of the Austrian Council for Science and Research Development, as Vice Chairman of the Board of the Medical University of Innsbruck, as member of the Austrian Science Fund (FWF), as member of the “Fachhochschulrat”, and as the Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Michael A. Popp Nature Science Foundation. Furthermore, he was awarded with the Halasz Medal Award – 2003, Ehrenring der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften – 2009, EUSSS Nernst-Tswett Award – 2010, Csaba Horvath Memorial Award 2011, Badge of Honor of the Province of Tyrol – 2011, A.J.P Martin – Medal – 2013, and has authored more than 400 publications and two books and is cited as an author on 29 patents.
Development of the Life Sciences Location Tyrol - Objectives, Status, Outlook | Petra Stöckl - Standortagentur Tirol
Petra Stöckl is program manager for the Life Sciences Location Development in Tyrol, a strategic program of Lebensraum Tirol Holding, implemented by Standortagentur Tirol. Further, she is responsible for the thematic platform "Health and Wellbeing" at Standortagentur Tirol.
After completing her PhD in zoology at the University of Innsbruck, she went on to study the molecular mechanisms of ageing at the Institute for Biomedical Aging Research in Innsbruck as part of another doctoral thesis. As a postdoc DDr. Stöckl worked at the Biomedical Aging Research as well as at the University Department of Psychiatry (Prof. Pidder Jansen-Dürr, Prof. Christian Humpel, Prof. Gerald Zernig). In parallel, an interest in the health care industry and the entrepreneurial translation of research results developed. This was followed by complementary training as a project manager and pharmaceutical sales representative.
After almost two years in the pharmaceutical sales force, DDr. Stöckl transfered to Standortagentur Tirol and, as cluster manager for the Cluster Life Sciences Tirol, promoted network support as well as the strategic development of the life sciences location Tyrol with a small team for more than 10 years. For the past 3 years, her professional focus as an experienced project manager has been pushing the development of the life sciences location - in close cooperation with the Health Hub Tirol.
Petra Stöckl is passionate about supporting innovation projects and research-intensive companies. The systemic approach - shaping the life sciences "ecosystem" in the efficient interaction of all players - is particularly important to her. A further ambition is to bring research results closer to an interested public, like, for example, the topic of evidence-based healthy nutrition.
