STEFAN DANNER, Dipl.-Biol., Dr. rer. nat.

Stefan Danner studied biology at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich (LMU), receiving his diploma in 1993. After completing a research project at the Max-Planck-Institute of Biochemistry in Martinsried, he continued his research from 1995 to 1998 at the Gene Center of the LMU Munich and the Department of Pharmacology, Julius-Maximilians-University Würzburg with a thesis on gene regulation of β-adrenergic receptor signal transduction and obtained his doctorate in 1998.

Thereafter, he spent four years as postdoctoral research associate at the Skirball Institute of Biomolecular Medicine in New York working on RNA-binding proteins.

From 2002 to 2006, Stefan Danner trained as patent attorney with Viering, Jentschura & Partner. He passed the German patent bar examination in 2006 and is also a registered European trademark and design attorney at the European Community Trademark Office. In 2008, he was admitted to practice as European patent attorney at the European Patent Office.

From 2006 to 2009, he was working with Maiwald Patentanwalts GmbH. In 2009, he joined DHS Patentanwalts GmbH.

Stefan Danner speaks German and English.

His main areas of practice include patent prosecution, opposition, and litigation as well as the provision of freedom-to-operate and validity opinions in the fields of molecular biology, in particular RNA biology, biochemistry, microbiology, biomedicine, and pharmacology.

Stefan Danner is teaching intellectual property rights at several institutions in Switzerland and in India.

His hobbies include politics, history, and traveling.