Dr Andriy Luzhetskyy

The Ukrainian Andriy Luzhetskyy has studied biology at the Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, Ukraine, where he worked on genetics and microbiology during his master thesis. He did his doctoral thesis at the “Laboratory of Genetics and Genetic Engineering of Industrially Important Microorganisms” at Lviv and received the Eugen-Graetz award for the best thesis. He then changed to the Institute for Pharmaceutical Sciences at the Albert-Ludwigs University at Freiburg where he founded his own junior research group in 2006.

Since 2011, he heads a junior research group at the Helmholtz Institute for Pharmaceutical Research Saarland (HIPS). In February 2011, Andriy Luzhetskyy was awarded with the DECHEMA prize for junior researchers in natural products research. Andriy Luzhetskyy has been Professor of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology at Saarland University since October 2015.