Dr. Paprotka joined GATC Biotech in 2012 to lead the Research and Development department. He has studied Biology at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg and obtained his PhD at the University of Stuttgart in 2009. In 2007 he worked several months in Brazil as DAAD scientist. Between 2009 and 2011, he has been scientific researcher in the HIV Drug Resistance Program at the National Cancer Institute (NCI) of the USA. His research focus was nucleic acid analysis, molecular virology, especially discovery and sequencing of novel viruses and epigenetics. During his research, Dr. Paprotka has discovered and sequenced multiple new viruses and satellites. He presented his works at many international conferences and is first author of several peer reviewed papers which were published e.g. in Science. For his research he received the Norman P. Salzman Memorial Award of the National Institutes of Health in 2011. GATC’s research and Development Department is responsible for the implementation of new protocols/workflows, the laboratory automation and the BioIT analysis at GATC. In addition, research projects with collaborators and publicly funded projects are guided by GATC’s R&D.

Sequencing of novel viruses