Co-Founder
CellTool Gmbh / P.A.L.M. Microlaser Technologies
Karin Schütze
- 2026
- Speaker
- Circle
Karin Schütze studied biology and did her PhD at the Applied Physical Chemistry in Heidelberg. As Feodor-Lynen postdoc at UC-Berkeley she assembled an Optical Trap with Dr. Art Ashkin (Nobel prize 2018). In 1993 she and her husband founded PALM to develop and market application-oriented OpticalTweezers and MicrodissectionSystems for biomedical applications. In 2008 they started CellTool to engineer user-friendly RamanMicroscopeSystems.
Awards: (2001) Philip Morris; (2006) Berthold Leibinger Innovation and Nomination ‘Deutscher Zukunftspreis’; (2018) Health Technology Innovation award, Nanjing.
