Kerstin Otte is a trained biologist trained from the Phillipps-University of Marburg, Germany and obtained her PhD at the SL-University in Uppsala, Sweden. After a postdoctoral fellowhip at the Gurdon Institute at Cambridge, UK, she gained industry experience as senior scientist at Graffinity Bioscience and LION Bioscience, both Heidelberg, Germany, in preclinical drug development. Since 2006 Kerstin Otte holds a professorship for molecular and cell biology at the University of Applied Sciences Biberach, Germany, at the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology. Her research focusses on cell line development for the production of biopharmaceuticals.