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Fraunhofer-Institut für Grenzflächen- und Bioverfahrenstechnik (IGB)
Kai Sohn, born in 1968, studied biology at Heidelberg University and graduated with a diploma degree. He received his doctorate in 1997 from the Biochemistry Center of Heidelberg University. From 1998, Dr. Sohn worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Stuttgart on medically relevant fungal pathogens. He then established his own research group Functional Genomics at the Fraunhofer IGB. Dr. Sohn is also a co-founder of the company Noscendo GmbH, which is active in the field of next generation diagnostics for infectious diseases. Dr. Sohn is now Head of Innovation Field In-vitro Diagnostics at Fraunhofer IGB.
Leitmotif
Sapere aude!
Activities
Dr. Kai Sohn heads the Innovation Field In-vitro Diagnostics. He is a biochemistry lecturer at the medical faculty of Heidelberg University, as well as a reviewer for numerous international biomedical journals.
Awards
For their innovative diagnostic approach in the project “Next Generation Sequencing based Pathogen Diagnostics for Sepis”, Dr. Sohn and his team, together with partners from Heidelberg University Hospital, were awarded the 2019 Innovation Prize of the Stuttgart Intensive Care Conference (SIK).
Focus
Basing his work on the analysis of nucleic acids, Dr. Kai Sohn focuses on establishing and developing diagnostic applications in the fields of medicine, environment and sustainable chemistry. This includes combining high-throughput sequencing methods with the latest bioinformatics techniques.
Innate immunity is a central component of the human immune defense. Pattern recognition receptors (PRRs), such as the toll-like receptors (TLRs), play a key role in this system. They are (…)
A real alternative to crude oil
A research team from the Fraunhofer Society and the Technical University of Munich (TUM) led by chemist Volker Sieber has developed a new polyamide family which can be produced from a byproduct of cellulose production – a successful example for a more sustainable economy with bio-based mate ... more
Producing vaccines without the use of chemicals
Producing vaccines is a tricky task – especially in the case of inactivated vaccines, in which pathogens must be killed without altering their structure. Until now, this task has generally involved the use of toxic chemicals. Now, however, an innovative new technology developed by Fraunhofe ... more
Spray drying: Perfect dosing thanks to drug capsules
Instant coffee and powdered milk are produced by spray drying. Fraunhofer researchers have adapted this technique to the tricky question of incorporating insoluble substances in core-shell particles. The new method helps reduce the concentration of active ingredients in therapeutic medicati ... more
3D tissue models with immune competence
Innate immunity is a central component of the human immune defense. Pattern recognition receptors (PRRs), such as the toll-like receptors (TLRs), play a key role in this system. They are omnipresent in nature and found in plants, insects, vertebrates and human beings. more
Anke Burger-Kentischer received her doctorate from the University of Tübingen on “Cellular and molecular mechanisms of radiation-induced pulmonary fibrosis”. During her postdoctoral stay at the Institute of Physiology at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich, she focused on the cell-s ... more
Steffen Rupp, born in 1962, studied chemistry at the Universities of Stuttgart, Freiburg and Cincinnati. He received a doctorate with distinction in 1994 from the Institute for Biochemistry at the University of Stuttgart. From 1995 to 1998, he worked on differentiation processes in yeasts a ... more
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