Christian Heinis, PhD

Associate Professor at Ecole PolyTechnique Federale de Lausanne

Speaker

Christian Heinis is involved in the discovery and development of cyclic peptides for therapeutic applications. His research group creates ligands based on cyclic peptides by synthesising large libraries of random peptides using combinatorial approaches and screening them for binding or modulation of disease targets. An important goal of his team is to develop cyclic peptides that are membrane-permeable and/or orally available.

Christian Heinis studied chemistry/biochemistry at ETH Zurich. After his PhD in the research group of Prof Dr Dario Neri at ETH Zurich, he did two post-docs, the first with Prof Dr Kai Johnsson at EPFL in Lausanne and the second with Sir Gregory Winter at LMB-MRC in Cambridge, UK. He joined EPFL in 2008 as an assistant professor and was promoted to associate professor in 2015. Christian Heinis is co-founder of the companies Bicycle Therapeutics and Orbis Medicines.