Prof. Dr. Ernst Wagner

Prof. Wagner is a professor of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU) and the Center of Nanoscience in Munich, Germany. Previously (1991-2001), he was the Director Cancer Vaccines & Gene Therapy at Boehringer Ingelheim in Vienna, Austria, where he supervised the first-in-world polymer-based human gene therapy trial in 1994. Prof. Wagner is an Academician of European Academy of Sciences, a member of the Controlled Release Society (CRS) College of Fellows, a board member of German Society for Gene Therapy, and the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Gene Medicine. He has authored more than 475 publications with almost 45 000 citations. His current academic research projects focus on the targeted delivery of nucleic acids (including mRNA) and protein therapeutics.