Barbara Schug, founder and owner of SocraTec and since the beginning managing director of the company, is a pharmacist by training but from the beginning focused on pharmacology to build the bridge between both faculties at SocraTec. Her background very early resulted in including patients in early -phase trials at the SocraTec R&D Clinical Pharmacology Unit and in pushing the development into later stages of clinical trials. She is today actively involved in all study design developments at SocraTec and brings in her broad view and her enthusiasm for methodologically perfect approaches.