SCIENTIFIC ADVISORY BOARD FRA/OC
An Open Exchange of Ideas: Symrise Founds Fragrances and Oral Care Scientific Advisory Board
left to right: Dr. Johannes Panten (Symrise), Dr. Torsten Kulke (Symrise), Professor Arnaud Aubert (SAB), Professor Hanns Hatt (SAB), Béatrice Favre-Bulle (Symrise), Dr. Patrice Bellon
Symrise AG has created a scientific advisory committee for two additional application areas: the Scientific Advisory Board for Fragrances and Oral Care. Internationally renowned scientists will support Symrise in applying the latest findings to innovative fragrances and oral care products.
The new Scientific Advisory Board for Fragrances and Oral Care builds on Symrise’s strategy of systematically gathering input from internationally recognized scientists for its main fields of business. Going forward, these experts will support Symrise researchers in incorporating new scientific findings into specific products as quickly as possible.
Dr. Torsten Kulke, Vice President Global Innovation Fragrances and Oral Care, commented: “With the founding of the Scientific Advisory Board, Symrise continues to encourage open innovation and takes aim at three objectives: Firstly, we want to generate new ideas for value creating approaches in our cooperation with external experts. Secondly, the Advisory Board will assist us in identifying relevant technological developments at an early stage, allowing us to tap future product potential. And thirdly, with the Advisory Board’s supplemental expertise we can quickly react to various global impulses in the assorted research areas.”
Symrise has existing open innovation networks and exchanges with international experts in other business units as well: The Life Essentials business unit has been working with external scientists in developing new cosmetic ingredients for years now. In 2010, a Scientific Advisory Board was founded for the Flavor & Nutrition division, which is devoted to developing new ingredients for nutritional supplements as well as concepts for healthier and more functional foods.
The Scientific Advisory Board (SAB) in Detail
The SAB has been divided into three parts to satisfy the diversity and requirements of our application areas Fragrances and Oral Care:
Sensory & Perception focuses on receptor research, neurophysiology, and psychology. Professor Hanns Hatt from the Ruhr University in Bochum (Germany) and Professor Arnaud Aubert from the Université François Rabelais in Tours (France) contribute their expertise to this area. In Oral Care, Professor William Wade from the Dental Institute at King’s College in London will advise on oral care innovation strategy and opportunities. And finally, Molecules & Materials concentrates on modern synthesis methods, biotechnology, polymers, and delivery systems. To counsel in this field, Symrise was able to engage Professor Frank Glorius from the Institute for Organic Chemistry at the Westfälische Wilhelms University in Münster (Germany).
Sensory & Perception
Professor Hanns Hatt from the Institute for Cell Physiology at the Ruhr University Bochum in Germany advises on receptor research and fragrance perception. Professor Hatt has earned a reputation as an international expert in the field of cell physiology. His research interests focus on odorant receptors. In fact, he was the first scientist in the world to express the odorant receptor OR17-4 from the corresponding genes. Furthermore, he directs his attention to molecular mechanisms of smelling, chemoreception, and signal transduction in trigeminal neurons. He also presides over the Advisory Board for the North Rhine-Westphalia Academy of Science and Arts. During his scientific career, he has won a number of distinguished awards. They include the Communicator prize in 2010 and the Robert-Pfleger research prize in 2010. Besides his research work, he is known as the author of numerous books and almost 200 publications.
Professor Arnaud Aubert from the Institute for Neuroscience at the Université François Rabelais in Tours, France, advises on human responses to fragrance stimuli. Professor Aubert enjoys a reputation as an international expert in the field of psychoneuroimmunology and emotional processes. Among his research interests are behavioral analyses as well as psychophysiological and psychological methods. He won the Allan B. Black Award for “the best paper of the year on the subject of make-up technology” (J. Cos. Sci., 59, 127-137, 2008) and became laureate of the prize of the IPSEN foundation for neuroimmunoendocrinology in 1998. He is also the author of more than 20 papers.
Oral Care
Professor William Wade from the Dental Institute of King’s College in London, United Kingdom, advises on oral care innovation strategy and opportunities. In the world of science, Professor Wade is known as an international expert in the field of oral microbiology. His research interests include molecular microbial ecology and bacterial systematics as well as the development and evaluation of resistance mechanisms. Among other positions, he works as an honorary Consultant Clinical Scientist for the Guy’s and St Thomas NHS Foundation Trust. Beyond this, he also has an honorary contract as Senior Research Investigator at the Forsyth Institute in Boston in the United States. During his scientific career, he has authored approximately 150 peer-reviewed articles in the field of human oral cavity microbiology.
Molecules & Materials
Professor Frank Glorius from the Institute for Organic Chemistry at Westfälische Wilhelms University in Münster, Germany, advises on the synthesis of new active ingredients and green chemistry. As an international expert in the field of organic chemistry Professor Glorius’s research interests belong to organocatalysis, C–H activation, heterocyclic chemistry, and metal organic frameworks. He is a member of the Advanced Synthesis and Catalysis academic advisory board. His scientific career has earned him numerous awards, such as the BASF Catalysis Award (2005), the AstraZenaca award in Organic Chemistry (2009), and the European Research Council Independent Researcher Grant (2010). He also gained a reputation as the author of nearly 100 papers in the field of organic chemistry.
