Andreas Josef Rottendorf founded a chemical-pharmaceutical company in Berlin in 1928, where his wife Rose also worked for many years and played a major role in the company’s success after the war. Pharmacy and its far from exhausted potential were both their passion and their entrepreneurial vocation. Accordingly, they also committed their foundation to promoting research in the fields of pharmacology and pharmacy.

Currently, there are two formats for this:

Science Prizes
In accordance with its statutes, the foundation provides funds at least every second year for prize competitions to be held by a university. The prize is to be awarded to the best paper written by a student or lecturer at the university to which the prize is made available.

Since 1995, there has also been a European Prize.

Rottendorf Foundation establishes endowed professorship at WWU Münster

The Rottendorf Foundation has been funding an endowed professorship in “Pharmaceutical Technology” at the Department of Chemistry and Pharmacy at the Westphalian (WWU) Münster since 2023. The endowed professorship is located at the Institute of Pharmaceutical Technology and Biopharmacy and will be converted into an endowed chair after six years. The research focus is on the simulation and modeling of the production of solid dosage forms – such as tablets, capsules or coated tablets. This research area includes process technologies in the fields of granulation, tableting, mixing and filming.

2022: AppO-Mobile Project: Expansion of a “Center of Excellence for Simulation and Digital Health in the Clinical Pharmacy for Digital and Practice-Oriented Training of Young Professionals” at the Institute of Clinical Pharmacy and Pharmacotherapy, Heinrich Heine University, Düsseldorf, Germany

2020: Funding of an exploratory R&D project at the Institute for Life Science Technologies (ILT.NRW) of the Ostwestfalen-Lippe University of Applied Sciences.