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Prof. Dr. Bellus has been a Director of Millipore since 2000 and is currently a Member of the Governance and Public Policy Committee and the Technology Committee.
Prof. Dr. Bellus received his Master’s Degree and a Ph.D. in Chemistry from Slovak Technical University (Bratislava) in 1967. He continued his studies as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich (1967 to1969).
From 1969 to1996 Prof. Dr. Bellus served in positions of increasing responsibility with Ciba-Geigy Ltd. a Swiss pharmaceutical company in Basel: Department Head Central Research Laboratories (1969 to1981); Director Central Research Laboratories responsible for development of several emerging synthetic methodologies (1981to1985); Director Research & Development Agricultural Division of Ciba-Geigy worldwide (1985 to1991) Director Corporate Research Units responsible for the direction of Ciba-Geigy’s research programs and collaborative strategic alliances world-wide in areas of bioorganic chemistry and biomaterials (1991to1996) and a global Head of Additives Research of Ciba SC Inc. Basel (until 2001).
Since 1980 he has also lectured as a Professor at the Institute of Organic Chemistry University of Fribourg. Since 1997 he has been President and CEO of Bellus Science and Innovation International Consulting located in Riehen/Basel (Switzerland). Prof. Dr. Bellus has been a named inventor on 49 patents and is the author or co-author of numerous scientific papers relating to the synthesis and use of compounds for the chemical and pharmaceutical industries.
He has received numerous scientific honors including Gold Medal of the Slovak Chemical Society (1993); Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (U.K.) (1996); Honorary Ph.D. of Czech Technical University (Prague) (1997) and Foreign Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (1999). Prof. Dr. Bellus is a member of many scientific societies including Swiss and American Chemical Society. He also serves as a member and delegate of Swiss IUPAC Committee; as a member of the Board of Governors of the Foundation for Discovery-to-Business Transfer (Basel); and as a member of several Scientific Advisory Boards in Switzerland and the Czech Republic. | 