Axel Unterbeck, Ph.D.
Executive-in-Residence
Boston, MA
aunterbeck@oxbio.com
Dr. Axel Unterbeck joined Oxford Bioscience Partners in 2005. Prior to joining Oxford, Dr. Unterbeck was President, Chief Scientific Officer, and Co-Founder at Memory Pharmaceuticals, Corp which achieved its initial public offering in April of 2004, NASDAQ: MEMY. Dr. Unterbeck has over 19 years of R&D experience within the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industry. He held various positions within CNS R&D at Bayer AG in Germany and the US, including Head of CNS/Dementia Research. Prior to joining Bayer AG, Dr Unterbeck was a member of the scientific team at the Institute for Genetics in Cologne which achieved the first full-length cloning of the human amyloid precursor protein (APP) gene implicated in Alzheimer’s disease. He received his Ph.D. in Molecular Biology/ Genetics at the University of Cologne and his MS/BS degree in Biology at the University of Bonn.

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