Thomas Frischmuth holds a PhD in biology. In his career he worked for 15 years as scientist (Associate Professor) in the molecular biology and biotechnology fields. For the last 9 years he was acting director for several life science venture funds and manager of small and medium size companies.
Antonio Manetto completed his studies at the University of Bologna, performing research in the group of Dr. C. Chatgilialoglu at CNR (Bologna) as undergraduate student. He earned his PhD in the group of Prof. T. Carell at the University of Munich (LMU). He is currently covering the position of “Manager Research and Development” in the company baseclick GmbH.
Simon Warncke is another alumnus from the group of Prof. Carell. During his PhD thesis he worked on highly modified DNA suicide substrates for the human methyltransferase DNMT1 and on DNA functionalization using sequential click reactions.