Dr. Alex J. Räber, CSO
Dr. Alex J. Räber leads Prionics Research & Development department as Chief Scientific Officer.
Before joining Prionics in 2002, Dr. Räber was Chief Scientific Officer for Cytos Proteome Therapeutics in Germany, a former subsidiary of Cytos Biotechnology AG in Zurich, Switzerland. Prior to that he held several academic positions in the field of prion diseases at the University of Zurich and at the University of California, San Francisco, USA, where he was a postdoctoral fellow in the laboratories of Nobel Laureate, Stanley Prusiner.
Dr. Räber holds a Master’s Degree in Natural Sciences from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich. He was trained as a biochemist at the Institute of Pharmacology at the University of Zurich and received his PhD in biology from the ETH in Zurich.
