Dr. Jens Wiehler

Jens is Managing Director of the Bavarian P4 medicine flagship program DigiMed Bayern (www.digimed-bayern.de). DigiMed Bayern implements digitally driven predictive, preventive, personalized and participatory medicine in the field of atherosclerotic diseases and is funded by the Bavarian State Ministry of Health. Jens joined BioM in 2018 for setting up the project. Additionally, he supports BioM and the Bavarian Biotech Ecosystem with his expertise in Digital Health and Business Development. Jens has a PhD in Protein Engineering from the Gene Center of the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich and a Diploma in Biology (Population Genetics) from Christian-Albrechts-Universität in Kiel. 2006 to 2018 he headed the set-up of DNA-related laboratory services within the Eurofins Group with scaling to European Top 3 leadership, comprising the markets of DNA forensics, ancestry and paternity testing, animal and plant breeding, food analysis and cell genotyping. 2001 to 2006 Jens was Key Account Manager, USA presales consultant and computer linguistics Product Manager at Biomax Informatics AG.