Dr. Loni Klaus, Scientist for mRNA optimization, BioNTech SE

Dr. Loni Klaus is a molecular biologist specializing in gene regulation and therapeutic mRNA optimization. She began her research career at the Max Delbrück Center in Berlin, mapping protein interactions, and later joined Mikko Taipale’s lab at the Donnelly Centre in Toronto to study translational regulation. During her doctoral studies in Alex Stark’s lab at the Institute of Molecular Pathology in Vienna, Loni systematically identified and characterized protein domains that repress transcription, refining our understanding of transcriptional regulation. As a scientist at BioNTech in Germany, she now combines her diverse research experiences to optimize therapeutic mRNAs and advance the company’s RNA platform innovations.