BIO
Angelika Schnieke is Emerita of Excellence in the School of Life Sciences at the Technical University of Munich, where she served as Chair of Livestock Biology in the Department of Animal Sciences from 2003 to 2022, and as Dean and Vice Dean over a period of nearly ten years. She has worked in the biotechnology industry and research centers in the United States, Britain, Switzerland and Germany. Her work was instrumental in the cloning of Dolly the sheep and production of the first ever gene-targeted livestock animal. Her research experience also includes the production of pharmaceutical proteins in large animals, animal stem cells, xenotransplantation and genetically defined animal models for research into human diseases. She is a member of the German National Academy of Sciences (Leopoldina).
