Dr Fabian Käsermann is heading Preclinical Innovation and is member of the Research leadership team in Bern Switzerland as part of CSL global Research. He is managing early phase Research projects and has established and is coordinating external collaborations with academic and industrial partners. Since more than twenty years he is working in an environment that supports the conversion of academic research into industrial projects, both at the University and at CSL Behring. Currently, as part of the core team, he is managing the integration of the CSL Behring Biologics Research Center into the Swiss Institute for Translational and Entrepreneurial Medicine (sitem-insel) in Bern. He studied Chemistry and Biochemistry with a PhD in Biochemistry and Virology.