Moritz Ullhofen

Experience

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  Kollegium Kalksburg

  Sept 2015 - Dec 2015

  Elementary Educator
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  Arbeiter-Samariter-Bund Österreichs

  Jan 2016 - Sept 2016

  Civil Servant

  • Theoretical and practical training as a paramedic• Rescue and ambulance operations in 12-hour day and night services• Participation in various further training courses on disaster intervention and themanagement of crisis situations

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  Johnson & Johnson

  Oct 2018 - Feb 2019

  Intern Government Affairs & Policy

  • Communication and collaboration with various stakeholders in the political and healthcare industry as well as various internal national and international departments• Participation in industry and political events, discussions, and interest group meetings with subsequent briefing to the Government Affairs & Policy team• Preparation of analyses and drafts for department statements on political and regulatory topics, particularly in e-health policy

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  University of Vienna

  Oct 2021 - Jan 2022

  Bachelor Thesis Project

  Title: "Antimicrobial peptides and antibiotics against bacterial biofilm"Working in A/Prof. Muttenthaler´s Neuropeptide Research Lab, in collaboration with the Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology of the University Hospital Vienna, the main objective was to study the inhibitory effects of different commercially available antibiotics and synthetic antimicrobial peptides against bacterial biofilm growth, with a particular focus on gastrointestinal biofilm to combat irritable bowel syndrome and inflammatory bowel disease. Supervisors: Bernhard Jandl, A/Prof. Markus Muttenthaler Show less

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  ETH-Department of Biosystems Science and Engineering (D-BSSE)

  Sept 2023 - Nov 2024

  Student Research Project "Tagging of endogeneous morphogens in post-implantation murine embryos and embryoid models" at Cell Systems Dynamics Group, PI: Prof. Timm Schroeder• Murine embryo isolation• Mammalian embryonic stem cell culture (ESC)• EiTiX mESC in vitro embryoid model• Proximity ligation assay (PLA)- and immunofluorescence-staining of cell line markers and morphogens in murine embryos and in vitro embryoids• 2-photon-, light-sheet- and confocal microscopy• CRISPR-Cas12a-assisted PCR tagging of morphogen in mESC line (chemical transfection, electroporation) Show less

  • Master Thesis Project

    Feb 2024 - Nov 2024

  • Student Internship

    Sept 2023 - Jan 2024
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  Hephaistos

  Feb 2024 - now

  Co-Founder

  Hephaistos is an early stage startup that aims to revolutionise industrial chemical synthesis. Our machine learning algorithm designs novel biocatalysts to optimise resource use in the pharmaceutical and chemical industries. Our comprehensive pipeline culminating in lab validation and optimisation aims to substitute complex chemical processes that are inefficient and enables the catalysis of previous unreachable reactions with our novel enzymes.