Senior Director
BioNTech
Stephanie Fesser is a senior director at BioNTech, Mainz. She earned her BSc and MSc in Molecular Biotechnology at Heidelberg University and Technical University of Munich and did her PhD in Biochemistry at the Gene Center in Munich.
She has been working with RNA since 15 years, focusing on mRNA at BioNTech for the last 10 years - optimizing the RNA platform towards better translatability and fine-tuning immunogenicity, and working on RNA production in an RnD environment, with experience in in vitro transcription, purification procedures and quality control of mRNA