International Conference on Sustainable Biotechnology (ICoSBi) 2025

Professor Stadler is the Head of Research Department “Microbial Drugs” at Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Germany and is a globally recognized expert in industrial microbiology, mycology and natural product chemistry. He studied biology at the University of Kaiserslautern and received his PhD in 1993. After a post-doctoral stay funded by the DFG at University of Lund/Sweden in natural product chemistry, he joined the pharmaceutical industry in 1995 and worked in the natural products department of Bayer Healthcare (Pharma Division). Professor Stadler currently has an h-index of 77 and over 30,000 citations to his work. He is the current President of the International Mycological Association (IMA).

Marc Vendrell is Professor of Translational Chemistry and Biomedical Imaging at the College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine in Edinburgh. His team has pioneered the design of activatable fluorophores for high-resolution optical imaging in live cells and tissues (>120 papers) and built an ambitious research programme linking physical and biomedical sciences through competitive funding (over £10M as PI, including ERC Consolidator and EIC Transition grants).

Vendrell is co-inventor of 12 patents and PI for several licenses and collaborative projects with industry (e.g., AbbVie, BioLegend, Merck, Tocris). Vendrell has a strong record of mentoring and training the next generation of translational scientists, and promotion of junior team members, with several alumni holding independent positions in academia and industry. He has won numerous awards, the latest being the Bader Prize by The Royal Society of Chemistry in 2023. Vendrell currently co-heads the IRR Chemistry Hub at the College of Medicine in Edinburgh as one of the first global hubs for collaborative non-silo’d research to catalyse innovation in medical sciences and accelerate translational outputs.