Dr. Brigitte Angres: co-founder of Cellendes GmbH. She has been trained in developmental biology and cell biology at the Max-Planck-Institute in Tübingen (Germany) and Stanford University, Palo Alto, USA. She was R&D group leader at Clontech Laboratories, Inc., later BD Biosciences, USA, where she managed the development of products in the fluorescent proteins and apoptosis product lines. Dr. Angres focused most of her research on cell-cell and cell-matrix interactions and co-developed the 3-D Life Technology with Dr. Wurst since 2007.