Jürgen Bentz is the Global Head of Medical Information & Patient Support of UCB Biopharma, Brussels, Belgium. As a physician, Jürgen is enthusiastic about the well-being of people suffering from severe diseases and looking into all facets to provide the right drug to the right patient at the right time, dosage, and duration. While providing solutions to patients is the right thing to do, things must be done in the right way. This passion makes Jürgen look across the whole value chain for UCB to strive to improve sustainability of UCB’s solutions.
Jürgen was medically trained at the University of Mainz, Germany, with specialization in Pharmaceutical Medicine from the Free University of Brussels, Belgium, is a graduated chemist from the Technical University of Kaiserslautern, Germany, holds a PhD in pharmacology and computational chemistry from the University of Karlsruhe, Germany, and a Postgraduate Diploma in Sustainability from University of Cambridge, UK. During his professional career, Jürgen worked as scientific journalist, and contributed for more than 25 years to the well-being of patients in the companies Yamanouchi Pharma and UCB Biopharma in multiple medical, clinical, and operational roles with increasing responsibility. Currently, Jürgen lives at two places, one in Brussels, Belgium, and the other in Düsseldorf, Germany.