Helmut Sterz

Helmut Sterz (born 1946) is a veterinarian and toxicologist. After studying veterinary medicine, he earned a doctorate in virology in 1971. From 1974 to 1988, he headed the reproductive toxicology department at Boehringer Mannheim, where he developed methods for investigating toxicity in pregnant laboratory animals and their offspring. He became a board-certified specialist in pharmacology and toxicology in 1981. He subsequently headed Servier’s toxicology center in Orléans, France, until 1995. From 1995 to 2001, he was responsible at F. Hoffmann-La Roche first for the toxicology center in Basel and later for the company’s preclinical toxicology division. In 2001, he joined Pfizer, where he led two European toxicology centers. He later retired.