Aimo Kannt

Head of Drug Discovery and Preclinical Research - Fraunhofer Institute for Translational Medicine and Pharmacology

Aimo Kannt is Head of Drug Discovery and Preclinical Research at the Fraunhofer Institute for Translational Medicine and Pharmacology. An experienced drug hunter, he worked in various roles in pharmaceutical R&D in the fields of lead discovery, cardiovascular and metabolic diseases before joining Fraunhofer in 2020. He is a biochemist by training and teaches pharmacology at Frankfurt and Heidelberg University Medical Schools.