Prof. Dr. Wilfried Weber, INM – Leibniz-Institut für Neue Materialien gGmbH

Prof. Dr. Wilfried Weber

Scientific Director Management Board
Phone: +49 (0)681-9300-520

Curriculum Vitae

Since 2023      

Scientific Director of INM – Leibniz Institute for New Materials and Professor (W3) for New Materials at Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany


2019 – 2023      

Founding Scientific Director of the Cluster of Excellence CIBSS – Centre for Integrative Biological Signalling Studies


2009 – 2023     

Full Professor of Synthetic Biology, Faculty of Biology, University of Freiburg, Germany


2008 – 2009     

Group Leader, Department of Biosystems Science and Engineering, ETH Zurich, Switzerland


2008     

Co-founder of BioVersys GmbH, now BioVersys AG


2006 – 2008    

Group Leader, Institute for Chemical and Bioengineering, ETH Zurich


2003 – 2005  

Postdoc, Institute of Biotechnology, ETH Zurich


2003 – 2005  

Doctoral Studies, Institute of Biotechnology, ETH Zurich with Prof. Martin Fussenegger


2000 

Diplôme d’Ingénieur en Biotechnologie, Ecole Supérieure de Biotechnologie de Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France


Publications

2009
Engineering of Synthetic Mammalian Gene Networks

Weber, Wilfried | Fussenegger, M.

Chemistry and Biology , 2009, 16 (3), 287-297.
https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.chembiol.2009.02.005

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The impact of synthetic biology on drug discovery

Weber, Wilfried | Fussenegger, M.

Drug Discovery Today , 2009, 14 (19-20), 956-963.
https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.drudis.2009.06.010

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A biotin-triggered genetic switch in mammalian cells and mice

Weber, Wilfried | Lienhart, C. | Daoud-El Baba, M. | Fussenegger, M.

Metabolic Engineering , 2009, 11 (2), 117-124.
https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ymben.2008.12.001

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Magnet-guided transduction of mammalian cells and mice using engineered magnetic lentiviral particles

Weber, Wilfried | Lienhart, C. | Daoud-El Baba, M. | Grass, R. N. | Kohler, T. | Müller, R. | Stark, W. J. | Fussenegger, M.

Journal of Biotechnology , 2009, 141 (3-4), 118-122.
https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jbiotec.2009.02.023

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A novel hybrid dual-channel catalytic-biological sensor system for assessment of fruit quality

Weber, Wilfried | Luzi, S. | Karlsson, M. | Fussenegger, M.

Journal of Biotechnology , 2009, 139 (4), 314-317.
https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jbiotec.2009.01.002

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A synthetic mammalian electro-genetic transcription circuit

Weber, Wilfried | Luzi, S. | Karlsson, M. | Sanchez-Bustamante, C. D. | Frey, U. | Hierlemann, A. | Fussenegger, M.

Nucleic Acids Research , 2009, 37 (4),
https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkp014

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A synthetic metabolite-based mammalian inter-cell signaling system

Weber, Wilfried | Schuetz, M. | Dénervaud, N. | Fussenegger, M.

Molecular BioSystems , 2009, 5 (7), 757-763.
https://dx.doi.org/10.1039/b902070p

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2008
Drug-sensing hydrogels for the inducible release of biopharmaceuticals

Ehrbar, M. | Schoenmakers, R. | Christen, E. H. | Fussenegger, M. | Weber, Wilfried

Nature Materials , 2008, 7 (10), 800-804.
https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nmat2250

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A synthetic mammalian gene circuit reveals antituberculosis compounds

Weber, Wilfried | Schoenmakers, R. | Keller, B. | Gitzinger, M. | Grau, T. | Baba, M. D. E. | Sander, P. | Fussenegger, M.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America , 2008, 105 (29), 9994-9998.
https://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0800663105

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2007
An engineered L-arginine sensor of Chlamydia pneumoniae enables arginine-adjustable transcription control in mammalian cells and mice

Hartenbach, S. | Daoud-El Baba, M. | Weber, Wilfried | Fussenegger, M.

Nucleic Acids Research , 2007, 35 (20),
https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkm652

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