2006 – today
Startup-Organizer (Coaching & Interim Management for hightech startups), several EXIST and GO-Bio projects (total funding raised: > 13 million EUR), juror in major business plan contests
2000 – 2005
Founder & CEO Sloning BioTechnology and Diavir, total funding raised (grants and VC money): > 12 million EUR
1995 – 1999
Director Molecular Biology Lab, HIV Outpatient Treatment Center, Medical Policlinic, Munich (HIV virology, HHV8 diagnostic kit commercialization)
1992 – 1994
Group Leader, Vienna Intl Research Cooperation Center, Vienna, Austria (HIV gene therapy)
1991 – 1992
Postdoc, Dept. of Virology&Oncology, Ciba-Geigy, Basel, Switzerland (molecular biology of HIV activation)
1988 – 1991
Postdoc, ZFE/Bio, Hoffmann-La Roche, Basel, Switzerland (functional analysis of HIV reverse transcriptase)
1987
PhD in Molecular Biology, University of Zurich, Switzerland (mechanism of 3’ processing of histone mRNAs)