Our team

We will take care of your request. The team at the office.

BioRiver is the largest industry association of the biotech and life science industry in North Rhine-Westphalia. Our members are the leading companies at the location, from start-ups to global corporations, universities and academic research institutions, service providers and suppliers, as well as the stakeholders of the industry.

We offer our members a strong network for professional and political engagement and a high-calibre platform for exchange at eye level. The commitment of its members is what sets BioRiver e.V. apart.

Our goal is to network the existing excellent capacities in science and business and to demand and create the framework conditions under which real innovation and economic dynamism can emerge in biotechnology and life sciences.

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The BioRiver office is where the threads of the association’s work come together. Please do not hesitate to contact us, we will help you:

- Your concern as a member
- You would like to become a member
- You are interested in our work

These are our tasks:

- Public relations and contact for internal and external enquiries
- Coordinate working groups
- Prepare meetings and assemblies
- Plan and implement events
- Maintain and expand network

We work in close exchange with the voluntary board. The latter is actively involved in the work of the association.

- strategic decisions and advice the office
- Leadership of working groups
- Providing impetus for new initiatives
- Function as jury, host, trainer, coach in the BioRiver Boost!
  Start-up competition
- Spokesperson for BioRiver e.V. vis-à-vis politicians

Our members are volunteers:

- Leadership of working groups
- Collaboration in the BioRiver Boost!
- Providing impetus for new initiatives
- Participants and ambassadors

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THE TEAM

Dr. Frauke Hangen

Managing Director

Curriculum Vitae

Studium Dipl.-Ing. Biotechnologie, span Technische Universität Berlin,
Landwirtschaftliche Universität Wageningen, Niederlande,
Dänische Technische Universität

Current position:
Managing Director