Research

Angelika Schnieke has held the Chair of Livestock Biotechnology at the Technische Universität München since 2003. She previously worked in the biotechnology industry and at academic research institutes in the UK, USA, Switzerland and Germany. She has been instrumental in the development of key techniques in the genetic manipulation of mice and large animals, including the cloning of Dolly the sheep and gene targeting in livestock.

She has considerable experience in the production of pharmaceutical proteins in large animals, animal stem cells, xenotransplantation and genetically defined animal models for biomedical research. She serves on various national and European advisory, funding and award committees.