Heiko Manninga

Biography

   Heiko Manninga is Managing Director and Chief Scientific Officer (CSO) of NEUWAY Pharma where he oversees the preclinical evaluation and further development of NEUWAY's Drug Delivery Technology. In only a year under his leadership, NEUWAY has built up the company and initiated several preclinical projects. Dr. Manninga also established a collaboration with a major pharma-ceutical partner and acquired additional public funding to support the further research program of NEUWAY Pharma. Dr. Manninga studied chemistry in Göttingen, and received his PhD in 2005 based on work at Max Planck Institute of Biophysical Chemistry in the lab of Dr. Thomas Tuschl, a pioneer in the field of ribonucleic acid interference (RNAi). After his post-doctoral studies, Heiko switched to the field of drug delivery as project director of Virus-Like Particles (VLP) Technology at the Life Science Inkubator (LSI) in Bonn. After his successful tenure at the LSI, Heiko served as interim manager during the spinout and funding process of the then-new company called NEUWAY Pharma and raised 5.85 million Euro from private investors during series A financing.

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