Prof. Martin Fussenegger

Biography

 Martin is professor of biotechnology and bioengineering at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, the ETH Zurich. Prior to that Martin studied molecular biology and genetics at the Biocenter in Basel, performed his PhD at the Max Planck Institute of Biology in medical microbiology and was postdoctoral fellow at the Max Planck Institute of Infection Biology. In 1996, Martin joined James E. Baileys group at the ETH Zurich as independent group leader and received his habilitation in 2000. Currently he is the Chairman of the ETH Department of Biosystems Science and Engineering in Basel. Martin has published over 170 refereed research papers, is coinventor of several patents and received, for his contributions to drug discovery and cell engineering the de Vigier and the Elmar Gaden Awards in 2003, became a member of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering in 2007 and was the first non-US recipient of the Merck Award in Cell Engineering in 2008. Martin is also co-inventor of BioVersys' core technology.

Research Interest

 Cell Engineering Biosystems Science and Engineering