Dr. Dan Kramer (CEO)

Dan received his PhD in Molecular Biology and graduated as biochemist at Humboldt University, Berlin. He is a serial entrepreneur and was cofounder of Cyano Biotech GmbH in 2004 and of Cyano Biofuels in 2007. Dan has worked with cyanobacteria since his diploma thesis in 1999 with a focus on the molecular biology and genetics of the biosynthesis of non-ribosomal peptides and polyketides. He is inventor or co-inventor of several patents related to cyanobacteria.

Dr. Heike Enke (CSO)

Heike received her PhD in Biology and graduated as biologist at Humboldt University, Berlin. She is a serial entrepreneur and like Dan cofounded Cyano Biotech GmbH in 2004 and Cyano Biofuels in 2007. Heike has been involved in cyanobacterial research since 1999. Her main focus was on combinatorial biosynthesis and heterologous expression systems in bacterial production strains. Heike participated in several inventions and patents in the field of cyanobacteria.

Dr. Torsten Schwecke (Business Development)

Torsten Schwecke received his PhD in Biochemistry in 1993 after he graduated as biochemist at the Technical University, Berlin. Together with Heike and Dan he is a cofounder of Cyano Biotech GmbH. Torsten has been working in the field of natural products research for 25 years, mainly on non-ribosomal peptide production in actinomycetes, fungi and cyanobateria. During his postdoc he worked for 6 years on polyketide biosynthesis with Professor P. F. Leadlay in Cambridge, UK.
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Dr. Timo Niedermeyer (Head of Natural Product Chemistry)

Timo Niedermeyer graduated as pharmacist at the Free University Berlin in 2001. In 2004 he received his PhD in Pharmaceutical Biology at the Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-University in Greifswald. For his natural product research related thesis he was awarded with the Scheele-Preis of the German Pharmaceutical Society. After working four years in the pharmaceutical industry he now is heading the exploitation of cyanobacterial natural products at Cyano Biotech since September 2008.

Dr. Monika Swiatecka-Hagenbruch (Head of Molecular Biology)

Monika Swiatecka-Hagenbruch graduated as Biologist from Humboldt University Berlin in 2003 where she also received her PhD in genetics in 2009. She has been working in the field of genetics of photosynthetic organisms since 2004. In 2008 Monika joined Cyano Biotech as head of the molecular biology group.

The Scientific Advisory Board of Cyano Biotech GmbH together with the management coordinates the scientific strategy of the company. The members of the scientific advisory board are among the most experienced scientists worldwide in the field of cyanobacterial research and their natural products.

Prof. Dr. Thomas Börner

Head of the Department of Genetics at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany

Prof. Dr. Lucas J. Stal

Head of the Department of Marine Microbiology of the Royal Netherlands Institute of Sea Research (NIOZ) and of the Department of Aquatic Microbiology, IBED University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Privatdozent Dr. Hans von Döhren

Group leader at the Institute for Chemistry, Dep. Molecular Biology at the Technische Universität zu Berlin, Germany

Dr. Rainer Kurmayer

Group leader at the Austrian Academy of Science, Institute for Limnology, Mondsee, Austria, Germany

­Dr. Keishi Ishida

Researcher at the Hans-Knoell-Institute for Natural Products Research, Jena, Germany