Manuel Iburg

Manuel Iburg studied Life Sciences at the University of Hannover and the Tokyo Institute of Technology before receiving his PhD in Biochemistry from the Humboldt University of Berlin for research on protein homeostasis and neurodegenerative disease. His passion for the emerging field of synthetic biology brought him to take up a postdoctoral position in Lu Lab at the Department of Bioengineering at Rice University. Here, he is focused on cell- and protein engineering with the goal of leveraging protein nanostructures and entire cells as nanoscale tools to tackle the pressing challenges of the 21st century. Manuel is a Walther-Benjamin fellow of the DFG and a member of the Rice University Academy of Fellows.

October 2023