Christian Plank, PhD

Chief Technology Officer at Ethris GmbH

Christian Plank is co-founder and chief technology officer of Ethris GmbH located in the Munich metropolitan area in Germany. Christian Plank holds a PhD in biochemistry from the University of Vienna, Austria. After a postdoctoral fellowship with Prof. Francis C. Szoka at the University of California, San Francisco, he returned to Europe to become a professor at the Technical University of Munich, Germany. He has been a principal investigator and coordinator of numerous grant projects that have focused on non-viral nucleic acid delivery and nanomagnetic drug targeting. He is a member of the Munich Center of Nanosciences (CeNS) and of the "Nanosystems Initiative Munich" (NIM) cluster of excellence.