Manfred Heller

I graduated with a PhD degree in Chemistry/Biochemistry at the University of Bern in 1994. After a postdoctoral position in New Zealand I joined the laboratory of Ruedi Aebersold at the University of Washington in Seattle, USA, for a second postdoc. Returning to Switzerland in 1999, I was involved in setting up one of the first proteomics companies (GeneProt Inc., Geneva) where I became group leader in the mass spectrometry and automation section. During my second industrial engagement with DiagnoSwiss, Monthey, I was involved in the development of the OFFGEL(TM) fractionator from Agilent. Since 2003, I'm running the proteomics and mass spectrometry laboratory at the University of Bern which became a core facility in 2008. In 2008, I received the habilitation in biochemistry and protein analytics at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Bern and was given the title of Associated Professor in 2020.