Andreas Kern

Andreas Kern, Ph.D. is Director of Research at Synthasome, Inc. Dr. Kern obtained his M.Sc. in Food Chemistry in 1988 and Ph.D. in Protein Chemistry in 1992 from the University of Munich, Germany working with Professor Dr. Klaus Kuehn at the Max-Planck-Institute for Biochemistry. Subsequently, he worked with Dr. Eugene Marcantonio as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Columbia University, where he focused his work on integrin cell and molecular biology. From 1998 to 2002 he worked at Advanced Tissue Sciences in La Jolla, most recently as Principal Scientist, his work focusing on the role of the extracellular matrix in fibroblast biology as related to tissue-engineered dermal products, the use of endothelial cells in tissue-engineered vascular grafts and development of assays for regulatory agencies. He is a member of the American Societies for Cell Biology and Matrix Biology and has published more than ten peer-reviewed papers. He joined Synthasome as a founding employee in August 2003.