Dr. Johannes Söllner

Provider of bioinformatics and immunoinformatics services; Protein & RNA design and optimization for vaccines and therapy (proprietary platform); computational vaccine & diagnostics design; biological datamining, analysis and machine learning; process automation; Custom reviews for the biomedical field.

At CenterCats I serve as primary portal designer, strategy coordinator, content developer, motivator and as information hub to connect contributing individuals. CenterCats is currently a private project of interested individuals.

My job at emergentec is to look for opportunities to position our portfolio of technologies pertaining to therapy of infectious diseases and cancer. Among others this involves management of relationship to contract research partners and collaborators as well as supervision of researchers on our side. Due to the dynamic character of the company I am also involved in preparation of software packages aimed at researchers in the fields of biomarker discovery and drug repositioning.

My particular expertise is the development of immunoinformatical technologies and chaining together with existing methods into workflows for vaccine development. Systems Biology, auxiliary drug therapies and content management have developed into interesting addons for comprehensive design work. IP protection and management of relationships to partners and collaborators are equally crucial elements as contract research is the primary driver of my work.

My initial intention had been to start an IP search engine including personalized services for IP professionals. I soon refocused this to bioinformatical / immunoinformatical services due to existing demand and requirement for overly high initial investment for a high-quality patent data basis. Some of the simpler IP search aspects (particularly regarding security) and a general affinity for the topic I made use of as bonus service for my biotech customers.

While I was a student at Intercell (Diploma and PhD) my activities focused on providing data processing capabilities for the Pipeline Department and later development of B-cell epitope prediction tools for vaccines and visualisation tools for in-house data analysis. Many of these activities exceeded classical student work and were fucused much on demand rather than abstract scientific questions. I also had the opportunity to manage a number of internships.

Bioinformatics of B-cell immunity / Immunoinformatics