Dr. Conrad received his PhD in Molecular Biology from the University of Mainz. He was Project Manager at former Schering AG, Berlin, and later Head of Research of the Institute for Research in Diagnostics, a subsidiary of Schering AG. In 1992, he founded ConsulTech GmbH and has since then supported many companies with his specific know-how on corporate financing in the pharmaceutical, biotechnology and medical devices industry sectors.
His long-standing experience in realization of many publicly funded international and national research and development projects in the Life Sciences is the basis of our and our customer's success.
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After studying Biotechnology in Berlin, Dr. Schubart obtained his PhD at the Friedrich Miescher-Institute (Novartis Research Foundation) of the University of Basel, Switzerland. His thesis about transcriptional regulation of immunoglobulin genes was published in Nature and the Journal of Immunology and was awarded the Edmond H. Fisher prize for the most outstanding thesis of the year. He started his career in industry as a group manager with the biotechnology start-up Axxima in Munich. He was working as Head of Bioinformatics at the French biotechnology company EntoMed and in Berlin in the areas of drug discovery, drug development and analytics for Paion AG.
He focuses on projects in areas of basic research, method development, bioinformatics and the health care industry.
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Heidrun Gürtler is an engineer in biotechnology with an emphasis on process engineering. She worked as a scientist in a medium sized company specialised in environmental technology. As project manager she supervised national and international projects in the field of production-integrated environmental protection.
She has been working with ConsulTech since 2001 and has therefore vast experience in the support of R&D projects in biotechnology, pharmaceuticals and next-generation technologies.
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Ursula Wirtz is an engineer in Biotechnology. She worked in Berlin Chamber of Commerce Consulting Agency, supporting companies with respect to EU project funding. Furthermore, she worked for a consulting firm and as a freelance project manager with the aim of supporting companies and public institutions in filing applications for funding and execution of funded projects of federal and EU projects. Additionally, she has substantial experience in the pre-arrangement and management of partnering events, conferences and workshops.
She has been working at ConsulTech since 2007 and is mostly involved in the management of grant applications and further support of funded R&D projects for healthcare and biotechnology firms.
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completed her Master's degree in molecular biology and human genetics at Komensky University in Bratislava, Slovakia. She then accomplished her PhD in genetics at the University of Basel. This PhD thesis on B lymphocyte development and transcriptional regulation of immunoglobulin genes, conducted at the Friedrich Miescher Institute, was published Nature Immunology.

Between 2004 and 2018, she worked as a project manager and project leader in the R&D department of PAION Deutschland GmbH and at InVivo BioTech Services GmbH in Berlin. Her responsibilities at PAION included the investigation of immunogenicity of a product in clinical phase II and monitoring of comparability studies of different production batches of an investigational product used in clinical trials.

The focus of her work at InVivo was on leading projects in the field of blood coagulation with the aim of developing new diagnostic tools, as well as on the production development of a recombinantly produced protein and the development of ELISA-based immunoassays under ISO 9001 certified quality management system.

Since 2019, Dr. Schubart extends the expertise of our team in the areas of project management and execution of clinical trials of the EU-funded consortia we accompany (e.g. IMI PainCare), as well as in-house R&D projects. Her language skills in Slovak, Czech and Hungarian support the search for partners for EU consortia from this part of Europe.
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Karoline Weißhuhn studied biology at the University of Leipzig, specialising in ecology, botany, zoology and geography. She then completed her doctorate in a BMBF-funded project at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research in Halle and at the University of Bern. The topic of the doctorate was plant ecology with a focus on interactions between plants and soil organisms.

After her successful thesis defense, Karoline Weißhuhn joined the Berlin-Brandenburg Institute for Biodiversity Research (BBIB) as project manager for several years. During this time, she worked from Freie Universität Berlin to establish the BBIB, coordinated a BMBF joint project on biodiversity and managed a project office for networking biodiversity research in Berlin and Brandenburg at the Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research.

Since April 2021, Dr Weißhuhn has been involved in business development, project management and the support of research and development projects in the life science sector at ConsulTech.
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