Primary Job Title Chief Executive Officer of Biomax Primary Organization Biomax Informatics
Location Munich, Bayern, Germany Regions European Union (EU), Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) Gender Male
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Klaus Heumann is one of the company’s co-founders and has been Chief Executive Officer of Biomax since its foundation. Heumann has lead the evolution of Biomax from a classic bioinformatics company to one of the leading knowledge management companies for the life sciences and healthcare.
He brought together innovative and highly qualified life
scientists, computer scientists and engineers to build a multidisciplinary team that truly understands the diverse challenges and underlying business and R&D processes in the wider life sciences arena.
Klaus Heumann earned his PhD from the Technische Universität München (TUM) and was part of the Munich Information Center for Protein Sequences (MIPS) team that published the first sequenced eukaryotic genome, Saccharomyces cerevisiae. He led the project to compile the results on the yeast genome CD-ROM published by Science and Nature magazines. In 1996, Klaus Heumann received the Heinz Billing Prize of the Max Planck Society for his work on “Identification and visualization of duplications in the yeast genome.”
