Uwe Marx

He gained his qualification as a medical doctor with a specialization in biochemistry in 1988 and his MD in 1991 at Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin (a joint medical faculty of the Humboldt University and Free University Berlin) with his thesis on Human Monoclonal Antibodies.

Uwe Marx was the head of the Department of Immunobiotechnology at the Institute of Medical Immunology, Charite – Universitätsmedizin Berlin between 1991 and 1995. He was the head of the Department of Medical Biotechnology at the Institute of Immunology and Transfusion Medicine, University of Leipzig between 1995 and 2000. He was the head of the GO-Bio Multi-Organ Chip Program “Multi-organ-bioreactors for the predictive substance testing in chip format,” which was supported by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), at the Institute of Biotechnology, Technische Universität Berlin between 2010 and 2019. This led to the establishment of a multi-organ chip technology capable of maintaining more than 15 miniature human organ equivalents, such as liver, brain, skin, intestine and pancreatic islets, at a homeostatic steady state over periods of at least four weeks. Uwe Marx was appointed an Honorary Professor of Medical Biotechnology at the Technische Universität Berlin in 2022.