Gerhard Ries

BioMed X GmbH is an independent research institute that conducts biomedical pre-clinical research projects in the fields of biomedicine, molecular biology, cell biology, and diagnostics. The private company is based in Heidelberg, Germany. The German company sponsors these projects with pharmaceutical partners such as Merck, Boehringer Ingelheim, Johnson & Johnson, AbbVie, and Roche. Talented early-career scientists from all over the world are recruited to work on these projects. The company combines crowdsourcing with local incubation to provide creative solutions to big biomedical research challenges. Each research team has access to state-of-the-art research infrastructure and is guided by experienced mentors from academia and industry. The company was founded in 2013 by Christian Tidona, who has been the CEO since 2013.