Fraunhofer Institute for Interfacial Engineering and Biotechnology IGB
Fraunhofer Institute for Interfacial Engineering and Biotechnology IGB

Rupp, Steffen Prof. Dr.

Deputy Director | Head of Medical Biotechnology Division

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Prof. Dr. Steffen Rupp has been deputy director of Fraunhofer IGB since 2015, and from 2019 until 2025 he has also been coordinating activities in the Health business area at the institute. Since 2026 he heads the Medical Biotechnology Division. Rupp holds a doctorate in chemistry. He joined Fraunhofer IGB after a research stay at the “Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research“, MIT, USA, in 1999. At the IGB, he established the junior research group "Automated Protein Screening Systems". In 2006, Rupp became the director of the new Molecular Biotechnology department, from which several teams emerged as new “Innovation Fields” in 2019, as part of a strategic realignment of the institute.

Since 2004, Rupp had been a private lecturer at the University of Stuttgart, and in 2015 he was appointed associate professor of Molecular Biotechnology.

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