Karin Schütze, PhD CellTool

Dr. Karin Schütze is biologist and expert in non-contact cell handling, characterization and enrichment based on innovative photonic technologies. She is cofounder and was head of the former PALM company with emphasis on laser microdissection and catapulting (PALM MicroBeam) that was successfully sold to Carl ZEISS in 2004.

In 2008, she and her husband founded CellTool GmbH developing and marketing innovative confocal Raman trapping microscope systems for label-free cell analysis.

Her expertise is developing complex photonic systems into easy to handle tools for biomedical applications.

At CellTool, she is in charge for product development as well as for CellTool's Application Laboratory. Further responsibilities are dissemination and publishing of Raman results in scientific articles.

Karin has more than 80 publications and about 28 patents. Together with her husband, she has received several awards - such as the Berthold Leibinger Innovation prize and the nomination for the German President's ‘Zukunftspreis’ in 2006.