Dr. Verena Grimm joined the BioRegio STERN Management GmbH team as a project manager in January 2017. The biotechnologist completed a tri-national degree course in Germany, Switzerland and France at the École supérieure de Biotechnologie de Strasbourg. After undertaking her dissertation at the University of Michigan in the United States, she received a doctorate from the Institute of Technical Biochemistry at the University of Stuttgart. She then worked for Greiner Bio-One GmbH for ten years as a product and marketing manager for multiplex analysis methods used in food safety, pharmaceutical product safety and human diagnostics. “This broad-ranging knowledge enables me to understand and reach various industries more easily,” explains the 41-year-old. “As a project manager for BioRegio STERN Management GmbH, I will be able to put my expertise in developing, applying and marketing biotechnological methods to good use in improving links between local companies in the medical technology and biotechnology industry and help them develop opportunities for automated applications.”