Dr. Marcus M. Menger is currently acting head of the ‘Cell-free and Cell-based Bioproduction’ department at the Fraunhofer Institute for Cell Therapy and Immunology, Branch Bioanalytics and Bioprocesses (IZI-BB) in Potsdam. He completed his diploma and doctoral studies in chemistry at the Georg-August University of Göttingen and worked in the Department of Biochemical Kinetics at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Göttingen. After fifteen years working in various biotechnological start-up companies, he set up the ‘Functional Nucleic Acids - Aptamers’ research group at the Fraunhofer Institute. He has successfully acquired and managed numerous research and industrial projects and published many papers in various scientific journals. He has supervised several students in their Bachelor, Master, and PhD programs and is a member of several scientific organizations such as GDCh, GBM, DNA or INSOAP. His interests include nucleic acids, aptamers, selex, aptasensors, analytical and diagnostic assays, biosensors, lateral flow assays, and therapeutic nucleic acids.