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Portrait of a cancer researcher

“Only happy researchers are good researchers”

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Riedl is now working with (left to right) Dr. Schohe Loop and Dr. Susanne Röhrig on thrombosis research at Bayer HealthCare in Wuppertal.

A researcher who wants to find an effective anticancer drug needs a great deal of stamina - but this alone is not enough. Apart from sound specialist knowledge and a focused way of working, a certain amount of luck and above all an excellent team of specialists are also needed. Dr. Bernd Riedl – a chemist at Bayer HealthCare – had all this and so succeeded in synthesizing the active substance in an anti-cancer drug.

Possible hope for other types of cancer
The researcher knew the path he wanted to follow from an early age: he saw chemistry as his calling. Read where the Pharma researcher gets his energy from and what conditions he needs to be able to work successfully.