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10.12.2014
The plant molecular biologist Yuri Gleba is the head and founder of the company Nomad Biosciences. Today, subsidiary company Icon Genetics is making headlines with its Ebola serum ZMapp. The motto of the chess lover: “Entrepreneurs should be able to think like a Grand Master.”
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24.09.2014
Equipping cell factories with new reaction chambers: this synthetic-biological vision is the goal of Freiburg-based chemist and cell engineer Stefan Schiller. The scientist recently won the BMBF’s highly endowed Next Generation of Biotechnological Processes research award for 2014.
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27.08.2014
Three steps to success: Turn up at the Federal Ministry of Research Innovation Academy Biotechnology with a good business idea, find some partners, become an entrepreneur. While this may sound a bit simplistic, it is exactly what happened to Hamburg-based microbiologist Ulrich Rabausch.
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14.07.2014
As often as she can, Leibniz Award winner Nicole Dubilier journeys to the sea, where she explores the fascinating coexistence of microbes with other sea creatures.
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08.01.2014
Plant biotechnologist, fund manager and now company head. In the world of applied biosciences, Jörg Riesmeier certainly gets around a lot. In recent years he has been responsible for putting industrial biotech company Direvo IBT on a new course.
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11.01.2013
The biochemist Falk Harnisch has made it his mission to produce industrial chemicals using current-carrying bacteria. Aided by a BMBF Research Award, he is building up his own working group in Leipzig.
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23.11.2012
“Just doing research” was not enough for the successful microbiologist. Finding no industrial partner for his optimised enzymes, he took matters into his own hands and founded the Düsseldorf-based company Evocatal, which specialises in the biotechnological production of fine chemicals.
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22.08.2012
An adaptable outsider: In the course of his career, the physicist Jochen Guck has brought a number of startling discoveries to the world of biotechnology. With a Humboldt Professorship in the bag, he now conducts research at the Technical University of Dresden.
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20.06.2012
Thomas Drescher is one of the founders of the Jülich-based company DASGIP. The bioreactor systems specialists were bought this year by Eppendorf AG – and after Europe and North America is now casting its eye on the Asian markets.
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13.06.2012
The Ukrainian genetic scientist Anna Dubrovska knows what cancer is like from her own family experience. After research sojourns in Sweden and the USA, she is now a Junior Professor at OncoRay in Dresden, where she conducts research into biomarkers.
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