Jens Niewoehner PhD

Jens Niewoehner obtained his Ph.D. at the Max-Planck-Institute for Cell Biology in Martinsried close to Munich. Following a PostDoc at the Curie Institute in Paris, he worked for two small Biotech start-ups in the Munich area before joining Roche Pharmaceutical Research and Early Development (pRED) in 2006. With his group, he is developing cellular functional assay for biotherapeutics characterization and screening. Since several years, he is actively involved in driving the development of the Roche Brain Shuttle platform to enable brain uptake of large-molecule drugs.