Peer F. Staehler

Hummingbird Diagnostics GmbH specializes in patient-friendly diagnostics for early disease detection, personalized medicine, and lifetime health monitoring. Hummingbird Diagnostics is based in Heidelberg, DE and was founded by Jochen Kohlhaas and Karoly Nikolich. The German company uses liquid biopsies based on miRNA biomarkers to detect diseases such as lung cancer, melanoma, breast cancer, multiple sclerosis, Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, heart diseases, and IBD. Jochen Kohlhaas has been the CEO since incorporation.

febit holding GmbH engages in the design and development of technologies used for DNA analysis. It specializes in technologies with applications in genomic research, RNA expression profiling, and other diagnostic and molecular biology fields. The company was founded by Markus Beier, Ramon Gueimil, Peer F. Staehler, Matthias Scheffler, and Cord F. Stähler in 2005 and is headquartered in Heidelberg, Germany.