Christian Orlik

Associate Director - In Vitro Biology Heidelberg Pharma

Dr. Christian Orlik is Associate Director In Vitro Biology at Heidelberg Pharma Research GmbH, a pharma company located near Heidelberg (Germany), mainly conducting research and development of anti-cancer drugs. He obtained his bachelor’s and master’s degree in molecular biology focusing on virology in 2014, followed by a PhD in immunology at Heidelberg University Hospital. He joined Heidelberg Pharma in 2020 as a group leader and started his work on establishing cell-based assay for the functional evaluation of ADCs based on RNA polymerase II inhibitor alpha-Amanitin. In his current position, he is responsible for the ADC Research with focus on the pre-clinical development of new Amanitin based ADCs.

Seminars

Thursday 4th December 2025
Precise Target Selection for ATAC Development Through Patient-Derived Tumour Models
10:00 am
  • Discussing the limitations of cell-line derived xenograft models
  • Deciphering Mode-of Action of ATACs in heterogenous patient-derived xenograft models
  • Leveraging findings from the PDX model to better understand resistance mechanism of ADCs and ATACs
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