Kai Sohn, PhD Fraunhofer Institute for Interfacial Engineering and Biotechnology

Kai Sohn is Head of the Functional Genomics Group and Head of the IVD Business Unit at the Fraunhofer IGB in Stuttgart. He has founded Noscendo, a company dedicated for the development of Next Generation Diagnostics for infectious diseases.

Kai studied Biology at the University of Heidelberg and received his PhD at the Biochemiezentrum Heidelberg in 1997.

His expertise comprises the fields of molecular microbiology as well as molecular diagnostics, with a special focus on implementing high throughput sequencing technologies into clinical diagnostics and process controls for the production of cell therapeutics.