Autor: Ian Maclachlan

Jens Kurreck is professor for nucleic acids technologies at the University of Stuttgart (Germany). He received his Ph D at the Technical University Berlin in 1998 and was a postdoc at the Arizona State University in Tempe, USA. From 1999 to 2007 he was assistant professor (“Habilitand”) at the Free University Berlin. Furthermore, he holds a master”s degree in philosophy. His group has been working in the field of gene silencing for many years with a focus on pain research and heart muscle infections. In 2005, Jens Kurreck received the award for the best teaching at the biochemistry department as well as the Young Scientist Lectureship Award of the European Society for Neurochemistry (ESN).