Christian Heinis

Christian Heinis studied biochemistry at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETHZ) where he also did a PhD in the research group of Prof. Dr. Dario Neri. He was a postdoctoral fellow in the group of Prof. Dr. Kai Johnsson at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédéral de Lausanne (EPFL) and in the group of Sir Gregory Winter at the Laboratory of Molecular Biology (LMB) in Cambridge, UK. In 2008 he was appointed assistant professor with tenure track for bioorganic chemistry at EPFL (SNSF professorship). The general research interest of Christian Heinis is the development of novel and innovative therapeutic strategies using chemical and biological methodologies. Christian is a scientific founder of the start-up company Bicycle Therapeutics.