Rimantas Slibinskas
Vilnius University, Lithuania
Biography
Rimantas Slibinskas has completed his PhD in 2006 from Vilnius University in Lithuania. He is Senior Research Associate at the Institute of Biotechnology (IBT) of Vilnius University and the Director of biotechnology company UAB Baltymas, a spin-off of the IBT, specialising in production of recombinant proteins for diagnostic and therapeutic use. He has published more than 15 papers in reputed journals and is co-author of international patent applications/inventions in the field of recombinant protein expression in yeast cells. Currently, he leads research projects granted by EU in the field of proteomics and genetic engineering of yeasts.