| Casper Vroemen |
 Dr. C.W. (Casper) VroemenStaff Scientist, Director R&D Genencor International, a Danisco Division Casper Vroemen, Staff Scientist and Head of Genencor R&D at the Netherlands-based Leiden site, attended Wageningen University, where he received an Msc in Molecular Sciences in 1992. As part of his Msc, he worked at the biotech company Gist-brocades in Seclin, France, and studied the final year of his Msc at the University of California, Riverside. He went on to graduate at Wageningen University, where he studied the genetic control of seed development in the model plant Arabidopsis. Part of his thesis work was done at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in New York. He received his Ph.D. in 1998, and continued his thesis research first as post-doc, and later as Assistant Professor at Wageningen University. In 2004, Casper moved to Genencor International in Leiden, the Netherlands. He began as Scientist Bacterial Strain Development to further improve production strains used in Genencor’s manufacturing plants, and then became project leader of new detergent enzyme development. In 2006, Casper took the position of Head of Genencor’s Leiden R&D department, which functions as the company’s global Center of Excellence for protein engineering and high throughput screening. A main focus of the Leiden department is the engineering of enzymes for biomass applications. Casper also leads a team involved in developing new enzyme products for the grain processing industry. << back to overview |
