Sep 07, 2023
Frank Buchholz honoured for his commitment to transfer innovation from research to industry
Frank Buchholz and Anne-Kristin Hennigen at UNIPRENEURS award ceremony 2023
On 6 September 2023, in the presence of the Federal Minister of Education and Research, Bettina Stark-Watzinger, UNIPRENEURS awarded 20 outstanding professors & founders who had been selected from 700 nominations.
Prof. Dr. Frank Buchholz, head of the Medical Systems Biology research group at the Faculty of Medicine Carl Gustav Carus, is one of three prize winners from TU Dresden, along with Prof. Dr. Gerhard Fettweis and Prof. Dr. Karl Leo.
The award recognises Frank Buchholz’s enormous research success and outstanding contribution to the development of genome editing technology, especially with regard to possible therapeutic applications.
His research has already been awarded the GO-Bio Prize of the BMBF, among others. Last year, Frank Buchholz and his team around Anne-Kristin Heninger und Felix Lansing founded the Dresden-based start-up Seamless Therapeutics GmbH, whose technology platform reprogrammes recombinases for the purpose of repairing disease-causing genetic alterations.