Marcel Hollenstein, PhD

Head of Research Unit at Institut Pasteur

Speaker

Marcel Hollenstein received his PhD in Chemistry (2004) from the University of Bern (Switzerland) under the supervision of Prof. Christian Leumann. He then moved to the group of Prof. David Perrin (University of British Columbia, Vancouver) as a postdoctoral fellow. In 2009, he moved back to the University of Bern as a Swiss National Science Foundation Ambizione Fellow. He was first an independent junior research group leader (2016-2022) and then a senior research group leader (from 2022 on) at Institut Pasteur (Paris). Research in his lab focuses on the selection of modified aptamers and the enzymatic synthesis of modified nucleic acids and aims to develop new therapeutic and diagnostic tools.