Public Health and Nutrition

Krzysztof Wrzesinski is CSO and Co-founder of CelVivo Ivs, a company dedicated to 3D cell culture technology. He received his PhD in 2005 from the University of Southern Denmark, SDU. After receiving a Postdoctoral grant from the Danish Biotechnology Instrument Centre (DABIC), he has been working together with Olympus Denmark A/S on developing a new Laser Micromanipulation System specially designed to operate on live 3D tissues and tissue like structures. From 2009, he was headhunted to DrugMode ApS and in 2010 he became General Manager. In 2011, he became the Associate Professor of the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, SDU and co-founded a new research group, Tissue Culture Engineering Laboratory (TCEL group). He is currently focusing on further improvements and detailed

physiological characterization of 3D tissue like structures and establishing human in vitro systems for pre-clinical development of drugs and toxicological assessment of chemical compounds.