Bunček Martin

Biography

Born April 7th, 1975 in Rakovník. Graduated from University of Pardubice, Faculty of Chemical Technology. Completed postgraduate studies at the Pharmaceutical Faculty of Charles University in Hradec Kralové and work stay at IMM in Oxford and TUe in Eindhoven. He worked for GENERI BIOTECH s.r.o. almost since its foundation, gradually went through all the positions and participated in the conception of the company as a whole, especially in research and development. He held the managerial position of R&D Director at GENERI BIOTECH Ltd. and ISO 9001:2008 quality manager. Principal investigator or co-worker of national and international (FP6, FP7 EU) projects. He is dealing with external teaching: till 02/2014 as an assistant professor at the University of Pardubice, Faculty of Chemical Technology, lectures molecular biology and genetics and molecular biological methods, at Charles University, Faculty of Pharmacy in Hradec Králové in the gene therapy. Gained experience not only in the protection of R&D results (patents, etc.), application of R&D results in practice, but also purchasing and use of know-how, including the due-diligence. In GENERI BIOTECH Ltd. successfully led negotiations on the purchase of a license from the Masaryk University in Brno, under which a unique diagnostic kit for determining the prognosis of chronic lymphocytic leukemia was developed and is marketed. He actively participated in the initiation and initial development of the association of Czech biotech companies CzechBio. He is the author or co-author of scientific publications and patents. He lives in Dašice, is married and has two children.

Research Interest

Biotechnology, Technology Transfer, R&D