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What is TRANSPLANT?
- TRANSPLANT is a science community project that fuels research transfer between academia and industry to maximize the impact of fundamental plant sciences.
- Researchers at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, University of Cologne and Rhine-Waal University of Applied Sciences have teamed up to boost the socioeconomic impact of fundamental science, foster public-private partnerships between industry and universities, and stimulate an entrepreneurial spirit among scientists.
- TRANSPLANT is hosted within CEPLAS to drive innovation creating pathways for the translation of research excellence, and is supported by the Ministry of Culture and Science of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia.
We support CEPLAS members in the following areas:
- Further development of the training program in the field of research transfer
- Support in establishing research cooperation projects between CEPLAS and HSRW
- Support in IP protection of research results
- Support in establishment of cooperations with the private sector
- Support in the development of business cases on the basis of research results: Develop a portfolio of startup-projects
- Support in entering the process of startup-foundation and advancing startup-projects into operational business
- Create an entrepreneurial mind-set for transfer of research results into socioeconomic impact
Dr. Ricardo Godinez-Moreno
Telephone+49 211 8110675
Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
Universitätsstraße 1
22.07, level 01 , 33, Postbox 007
40225 Düsseldorf
Ricardo Godinez fosters a scientific entrepreneurial culture within CEPLAS, supporting startup creation from fundamental science and collaborations with industry and the NRW innovation ecosystem. He develops projects to build deep tech startups from CEPLAS research. A Harvard PhD in Organismic Evolutionary Biology, Ricardo has two decades of experience in research, entrepreneurship, and innovation ecosystem development, and has founded deep tech startups in genomics, bioinformatics, and drug discovery.
Christina Kothes
Telephone+49 221 470 90776
University of Cologne
Institute for Plant Sciences
Zülpicher Str. 47b
Level 03 , 3.103
50674 Cologne
Christina´s task is to identify aligned research interests, support transfer and connect to internal specialists. Christina brings two decades of experience in practical plant breeding and agribusiness sector, enabling her to have a profound understanding of innovations within the agricultural value chain.
Ulrike Schiffer supports the development and coordination of knowledge-transfer activities within TRANSPLANT. With a background in pedagogy and intercultural communication and more than ten years of experience in project coordination in academic environments, she brings expertise in developing educational formats, coordinating diverse stakeholders and building professional networks. Her international experience and her work with researchers, students and professionals enable her to connect different perspectives and support collaborative processes across institutional and disciplinary boundaries.
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