Boris Jerchow

Boris Jerchow works at the Max-Delbrück-Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC) in Berlin, Germany. He is Assistant Director of the institute's animal facility and Head of its Transgenic Core Facility since 2005. Before his career with MDC he was employed as Head of Transgenic Technologies with Swiss based RCC, now part of Harlan Laboratories. Boris was trained as a chemical engineer at the Berlin Institute of Technology and then did his PhD in genetics with Walter Birchmeier where he had his first contact with genetically engineered mice. Boris became member of ISTT in 2005 and was elected council member in 2007.