Matthias Steiert
Los Gatos Pharmaceuticals, USA
Biography
Dr. Matthias Steiert is the co-founder and Chief Scientific Officer of Los Gatos Pharmaceuticals. He has extensive experience with nano-scale systems both for the development of drug delivery systems and diagnostics. He serves also as a consultant for various companies involved in nanotechnology and is co-founder of Afaf Translations LLC, a scientific language service provider. Previously, he held a position as Senior Director of R&D at Matrix Sensors Inc. and prior to that 10 years of senior-level research positions at several biotechnology companies in the fields of nanotechnology, drug development, diagnostics, and blood safety. Earlier in his career, Dr. Steiert was Senior Scientist at GlaxoSmithKline (Italy), a research fellow at the National Institute of Health and Environment (The Netherlands), and a consultant for the World Health Organization in Egypt and the Lebanon. He received his postdoctoral training from the University of California, Berkeley. Dr. Steiert holds a degree in plant physiology from the University of Freiburg (Germany) and obtained his Ph.D. in biochemistry from the University of Basel (Switzerland).