Jochen Stritzker
Chief Executive Officer and CSO Loop Lab
Jochen is Co-founder, CEO and CSO of LoopLab. With over 20 years of experience in industrial and academic research in Europe and the US, his scientific expertise is focused on immunotherapy, infectious diseases, molecular imaging, biomarkers, and translational research. Throughout his career, Jochen has held senior managerial and research roles, including Senior Principal Scientist at Merck, where he led the oncolytic virus and vaccine programs. He joined Merck following the acquisition of Themis Bioscience where he was Senior Vice President Immunotherapy. Prior to Themis, Jochen worked at Genelux in positions of increasing responsibility. Jochen obtained his PhD from the University of Würzburg in Germany.
Seminars
- Presenting mechanistic mouse model and primary human cell data, and top-line safety signals to de-risk the path from preclinical proof of mechanism to patient outcomes for antigen-specific immune inhibition by LoopLab’s Fc-Engager proteins
- The lessons to be learned from the synergies and discrepancies between primary human cell data and humanized mouse models to clarify where these models diverge and improve the interpretation of preclinical data before advancing into the clinic
