Nikolas Offenhauser

Nikolas Offenhauser

Medical Director

Dr. med. Nikolas Offenhauser is Medical Director at Clariness and joined the company in 2018. In his role, Nikolas strives to provide best-in-class medical and scientific expertise to patients’ needs as well as Clariness clients. 

He brings more than 20 years of senior scientific leadership experience in clinical and preclinical research as well as medical expertise as a clinician and investigator in phase II-IV clinical trials and is board certified in medical physiology. Prior to joining Clariness, he was Medical Director at Viomedo, from early start-up to becoming the largest online platform for clinical trials in the DACH region, recognized for patient-centered recruitment solutions. Before he joined Viomedo Nikolas held various leadership positions at the Charité and at the Berlin Institute of Health, where he served as Head of Quality-Management at one of the largest German research institutes for translational medicine in academia. 

During his research career, Dr. Offenhauser has been teaching at the Charite – Universitätsmedizin Berlin and was a Research Assistant Professor at the University of Copenhagen. He has numerous scientific publications in internationally renowned journals. 

Nikolas is MD by training, board certified in medical physiology and medical quality management (and certified quality manager and auditor). He graduated and earned his doctorate at the Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin.

“I am thrilled to be a patient advocate, to truly understand their real-world needs, and to connect them with the best clinical trials and novel treatments.”