Anja joined Charles River, Germany in January 2015. She initially worked as a Study Director and Study Director Supervisor obtaining profound knowledge of setting-up, planning, and performing viral clearance studies.
Prior to joining Charles River, Anja worked as Research Director at Antitope, UK overseeing antibody humanization projects. Anja studied biochemistry at the Universities of Greifswald and Witten/Herdecke, both located in Germany. She performed her M.Sc. thesis working on Borna disease virus at the University of Marburg, Germany. Afterwards she worked in the field of innate immunity at the DKFZ, Heidelberg, Germany where she obtained a PhD from the University of Heidelberg in 2008.