Abstrait

Innovative cell factories for pharmaceutical production: focus on fungi

Han AB Wosten

Han AB Wösten studied biology at Groningen University where he also received his PhD in 1994. He undertook a post-doc at the University of Munich (EMBO long-term fellowship) and was appointed assistant professor in the Microbial Physiology group of the University of Groningen in 1998. Han Wösten was appointed full professor at the University of Utrecht in 2001. He is the president of the Royal Dutch Society for Microbiology (since 2009), is head of the Department of Biology of Utrecht University (since 2011), and is vice-flagship manager of the public–private partnership BE-BASIC (since 2013). Han Wösten has filed nine patent applications, published more than 100 papers, has a H-index of 39 (Google Scholar) and his articles have been cited more than 5600-times. Han Wösten received three research prices, among which is the STW Simon Stevin Meester prize 2008 (€500,000). Professor Wösten spoke to Pharmaceutical Bioprocessing for the first in a series of interviews on innovative cell factories for pharmaceutical production.