Jan Lichtenberg Email & Phone Number

Zürich, Zh, Ch

Schlieren, Schweiz, Ch

Using a unique and patent-protected cell-culture platform, InSphero is the first commercial producer of organotypic, scaffold-free, three-dimensional microtissues for drug development and screening. InSphero provides solutions to pharmaceutical and biotechnological companies in the fields of oncology and toxicology. The company, a spin-off of ETH Zurich and the University Zurich, is supported by Venture Kick and CTIstartup.

Syndya Therapeutics is a new venture leveraging InSphero's highly predictive and scalable 3D in-vitro NASH discovery platform to identify synergistic drug/drug combinations to find a cure for non-alcoholic steatohepatitis and related liver diseases.

Basel, Ch

Disruptive artificial intelligence platform for the discovery of complex disease patterns from single-cell data. The solution provides unprecedented insight into the disease and patients’ biology and enables the discovery of new clinically-relevant biomarker signatures by uncovering human’s hidden “single-cell” secrets.

Volketswil, Ch

Hocoma AG is the world leader in advanced functional rehabilitation technology, focusing on patients with spinal cord injuries, brain trauma, stroke or other neurological disorders. The R&D and Product Management team includes 18 engineers, 5 product managers and 6 clinical application scientists. The company has 100 employees worldwide with a turnover of >22 Mio. CHF.Responsibilities include: Product development strategies. Full profit/loss responsibility for R&D and Product Management with >25 staff. Management from concept to realization, clinical trails, market launch and product maintenance. Coordination with external consulting, development and subcontracting services. Documentation and certification according to FDA standards, IEC 60601 medical devices regulation and CE.

Racine, Wi, Us

Managing the research and development team with hard- and software designers. Field of activity: electronic underwater instruments for recreational and professional divers. Project management of complete product-development cycles from specification to prototype design to mass fabrication. Focus on ultra-low-power circuitry, ASIC design and embedded-software development. Intensive test and validation activities in accordance with medical-device directives.

AMMT is world market leader for speciality wet etching equipment for silicon, glass, quartz and porous silicon. Responsibilities as CEO: R&D management of the product groups “Wafer Handling Systems” and “Electrochemical Etching Systems” (corporate research, product design and development, transfer into production, technical and marketing documentation, product certification), hardware and software engineering for analog instrumentation electronics, embedded control and PC-based data acquisition software.

Zürich, Ch

Team leader of the microfluidics and biosensor research group, deputy director of the Physical Electronics Laboratory at the ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology).Research interests include: Microchemical analysis of single cells, microfluidic sample handling (including pumping, particle filtering, mixing), microchip-based capillary electrophoresis systems with conductivity detection, time-of-flight DNA sizing, fluidic sensor packaging, CMOS-based biosensors and scanning-probe sensors.More details on the scientific work and publications at www.janlichtenberg.de

Developing microfluidic devices for DNA fragmentation, microchip electrophoresis and sample pre-concentration using electro-osmotic flow. Semiconductor and glass microfabrication techniques, especially wet chemical etching and electrochemical etch stop.

Establishing a robust electrochemical etch-stop technology for silicon membrane fabrication. Development of integrated, surface-micro-machined, implantable pressure sensors. Development of a high-speed, silicon-based micro-PCR chamber.

Research Team Leader, Protein Microsensors

Phd, Microtechnology And Microfluidics

Microtechnology/Microelectronics

Master Of Science - Ms, Microtechnology