Dr. Helmut Wurst: co-founder of Cellendes GmbH and inventor of the 3-D Life Technology. He was trained at Konstanz University in molecular biology, physical biochemistry and conjugational chemistry. After postdoctoral studies at Stanford University he led the R&D group for the PCR and cDNA synthesis product lines at Clontech Laboratories. Inc., Palo Alto, later BD Bioscience, USA