Ralf Klein
Microbiology
VIRUSURE
Australia
Biography
Ralf Klein is Manager of Business Development at ViruSure, having joined ViruSure in August 2009. Ralf comes to ViruSure with ~15 years experience in the contract pathogen safety testing service industry. Prior to his position at ViruSure he has worked at several other CRO´s (BioReliance, Invitrogen, NewLab BioQuality and Charles River Laboratories). At BioReliance he was a Study Director for virus validation studies for about 4 years before moving into the role of a key account manager for biosafety testing services. His subsequent positions at other CRO’s has been in business development / key account management. A graduate of the University of Heidelberg with a degree in Genetics, Microbiology and Biochemistry, he served for 4 years at the diagnostic laboratory Seelig establishing ELISA and PCR tests for virus and autoimmune diagnostics. He earned his Ph.D in virology at the German Cancer Research Centre in Heidelberg working on Hepatitis B Virus at the Institute for Applied Tumour Virology(headed by 2008 Nobel Prize winner Prof.Harald zur Haussen). Following his Ph.D., Ralf worked also as a post-doctoral fellow at the Institute for Applied Tumour Virology studying Tumor Suppressor Genes. Ralf holds a patent on a p53 ELISA test.
Research Interest
Research on Microbiological studies
