Bernhard Kuster PhD

Bernhard Kuster is a chemist by training and obtained is PhD in Biochemistry from the University of Oxford. He went on to do a PostDoc funded at the EMBL in Heidelberg and the University of Southern Denmark. After seven years as VP Analytical Sciences and Informatics at the biotech firm Cellzome, he became full professor of Proteomics at the Technische Universität München in 2007 where he is also the Chair of the Department for Biosciences and Co-Director of the Bavarian Biomolecular Mass Spectrometry Center.

Bernhard’s research focuses on mass spectrometry based proteomics and its application to chemical and systems biology. He is particularly interested in how drugs interact with proteins, signaling pathways and cellular systems in order to understand how these molecules work. His team continues to develop technologies for the exploration of the human proteome and its application to drug discovery and personalized medicine.