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Dr. Walter Fischli was educated as a biochemist at the Swiss Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich, with further training at the Addiction Research Foundation/Stanford University in Palo Alto, USA. During his subsequent 15 years at F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd, he worked in research and led various drug discovery projects. In 1993 he received the Hoffmann-La Roche Research Prize.

In 1997, Walter co-founded Actelion Pharmaceuticals Ltd, where he built up the Biology department and complemented the other two drug discovery departments around Medicinal Chemistry and Pharmacology headed by Thomas Weller and Martine Clozel, respectively.

In Mid 2009 he handed over his position to Beat Steiner and served as Senior Vice President, for Academia Relations until his retirement at the end of 2012.