Analysis of single cells is never easy – and it gets even more difficult when cells are not fixed at a surface but freely moving. In this case, Raman-Trapping-Microscopy arrests motile samples during spectral analysis. These most powerful devices enable novel insights into characteristics a ... more
Dr. Karin Schütze
CellTool GmbH
Karin Schütze studied biology and sports in Heidelberg and did her PhD work in the Institute for Applied Physical Chemistry in Heidelberg. As a postdoc at the University of California in Berkeley, USA, she assembled her first Optical Trap. In 1993 she and her husband Raimund Schütze founded the former PALM company which was successfully sold to Carl Zeiss in 2004. In 2008, she and her husband founded CellTool GmbH, focusing on engineering Raman systems for biomedical applications. In 2006 they received the “Berthold Leibinger Innovationpreis” and were nominated for the “Deutscher Zukunftspreis” of Germany’s Federal President.