Tanja is responsible for the day-to-day functioning of Kimer Med’s laboratory, maintaining equipment, supplies and health and safety protocols.

Tanja has a background in pharmaceutical and life sciences, with over 15 years of experience working in top level German research institutes like the University of Goettingen and the Max-Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences. Her work in Germany focused on engineering expression cassettes for use with recombinant viral vectors and in-vitro transcribed mRNA.

In 2018 she moved to Nelson where she worked at for 5 years at Cawthron Institute within the ecotoxicology group, before taking up her role at Kimer Med.