Dr. Holger Zinke presented with the Greifswald Research Award 2015
Dr. Holger Zinke is the first entrepreneur to be given the Greifswald Senior Research Award. The founder of BRAIN AG and winner of the German Environmental Prize was honoured by the jury of Greifswald University Club (GUC) for his achievements in the field of biotechnological research and development.
Since the prize went to internationally renowned researchers from the region in the first two years (2013: Prof. Dr. Michael Hecker, Institute of Microbiology, 2014: Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Thomas C. Mettenleiter, President of the Friedrich Loeffler Federal Research Institute for Animal Health), there are two aspects of the decision to award this year’s prize to the entrepreneur Dr. Holger Zinke which are significant: firstly, the Research Award is not limited exclusively to academic expertise, as the transfer of scientific knowledge is also explicitly taken into account. Secondly, the long-standing cooperation and collaborative work of the award-winner Dr. Zinke and his company BRAIN AG are also recognised by the University of Greifswald.
The first prize winner, Prof. Dr. Hecker, as well as further academic and industrial partners,has been working since 2013 as part of the NatLifE 2020 strategic alliance, which is coordinated by BRAIN. Another long-standing research partnership is the Biocatalysis Working Group, led by Prof. Dr. Uwe Bornscheuer from the University of Greifswald. BRAIN is also involved in the start-up technology company Enzymicals AG, a subsidiary of the University of Greifswald, which specialises in the synthesis of fine chemicals using modern biocatalysts.
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