In 1995 Dieter Hoehn delivered the Bradstreet Chair Inauguration Lecture “Development Trends of Instruments and Systems in the Analytical Industry” and accepted an invitation to become a member of the Advisory Board of the Barnett Institute. He is a source of strength and support as a Board member and has made valuable suggestions for program development. To celebrate the Institute’s Silver Anniversary in 1998, Dieter and his wife Inge established the Hoehn Lectures in Bioanalytical Chemistry as their Anniversary Gift. The Institute is deeply grateful to Dieter and Inge for their generosity of time and resources. 

 Dieter Hoehn joined Hewlett-Packard in 1965 as a research and development engineer in the company’s Boeblingen, Germany, Instrument Division. In 1968, he moved to HP’s Avondale Division where he held various positions in research and development of gas chromatography products. In 1972, he returned to Germany where he was active in coordinating the acquisition of Hupe and Busch, one of the first manufacturers of high-performance liquid chromatographs and a company that later became a key part of HP’s Waldbronn Division, where he served as engineering manager. In 1977, Dieter was promoted to division general manager with worldwide responsibility for HP’s liquid chromatograph product line, a position he held until the summer of 1984 when he was named General Manager, Analytical Products Group. He was named and HP vice president in 1987. 

 Dieter Hoehn retired as Vice President of Hewlett-Packard Company in 1996. He was responsible for HP’s worldwide Analytical Products Group as General Manager, including the bioscience program from 1984 to 1995. He remained vice Chairman of the Board of Hewlett-Packard Shanghai Analytical Products Co., Ltd. (a joint venture in China) and a Director of Yokogawa Analytical Systems (a joint venture in Japan) until spring of 1999. Dieter served as a member of the Board of Directors of Discovery Partners International in San Diego from 1996 to 2004. At present, he provides his international business expertise on a limited consulting basis to senior executives of technology companies and serves on the Advisory Board of the Barnett Institute of Northeastern University. 

PREVIOUS HOEHN LECTURERS

2006 - (FUNCTIONAL PROTEOMICS) Albert J.R. Heck / Michael Snyder

2005 - (GLYCOMICS) Nicolle H. Packer / Ganesh Venkataraman

2004 - (MOLECULAR IMAGING) Richard Caprioli / Homer Pien

2003 - (CANCER PROTEOMICS) Lance Liotta / Craig Muir

2002 - (MINIATURIZATION IN BIOANALYSIS) Ian Hunter / Andreas Manz

2001 - (METABOLOMICS) Jeremy Nicholson / John C. Lindon

2000 - (PROTEOMICS) N. Leigh Anderson / John R. Yates III

1999 - (GENOMICS) Peter Barrett / Peter Oefner