Michael Herschel | Director, Clinical Research
GSK

Michael Herschel was born in Germany and graduated and obtained his doctorate in Medicine from Heidelberg University in 1977. After post-doc years at the Harvard Medical School Department of Psychiatry and medical speciality training (he is a board-certified Clinical Pharmacologist), he joined the Pharmaceutical Industry in the 1980s. He has held positions in medicine, marketing and as a project leader with Boehringer Mannheim, Merckle, and Boehringer Ingelheim both at the local operating unit and corporate levels. He also obtained an MBA degree from Brunel University which included a dissertation on project evaluation and decision audits. He holds a Diploma in Pharmaceutical Medicine of the Royal College of Physicians, and is a Fellow of their Faculty. He is Past President of the German Society for Pharmaceutical Medicine. Dr. Herschel joined GlaxoWellcome Germany as Director Clinical Research in February 1999 where he initiated a major change programme to improve the department’s effectiveness. Since January 2001 he is Director Clinical Research at GlaxoSmithKline Germany.