Kirill Alexandrov

Kirill is an academic and serial entrepreneur with over 25 years of experience in molecular and synthetic biology. MW is the product of 10 years his work at the University of Queensland and later at Queensland University of Technology, backed by over $10m in research funding. In 1998 he co-founded the successful German biotechnology company JenaBioscience, and in 2006 he conceptualised, raised funds, established and operated the Dortmund Protein Expression (DPF) facility that was the most advanced European protein production facility at the time. Previously, he was a group leader at the Department of Physical Biochemistry at the Max- Planck Institute, Germany. Kirill has numerous patented inventions in the area of protein expression and engineering. He has a PhD in Cell Biology from European Molecular Biology Laboratory in Heidelberg, Germany.