Dr. Frank-Christophe Lintz is Associate Director Crossfunctional Projects for AbbVie. He is a licensed pharmacist (University of Heidelberg, Germany) and received his Ph.D. in pharmaceutical process technology in 2000. Frank started his pharmaceutical industry career in the field of local and systemic pulmonary drug delivery. Following several scientific and managerial positions at Grünenthal and Abbott / AbbVie he is now in charge of AbbVie’s European Public Private Partnership activities. As such he manages AbbVie’s participation in IMI, both at project level and by representing AbbVie in related internal and external international working groups.