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Centogene: Philip Lambert, Peter Bauer

Dec 06, 2019

Philip Lambert has become CSO of Centogene, replacing Peter Bauer, who is now the firm's chief genomic officer. Lambert joins the company from Life Biosciences, where he was senior VP of discovery and labs as well as chief operating officer of two subsidiaries, Selphagy Therapeutics and Spotlight Biosciences. Prior to that, he was scientific partner and head of discovery at Charles River Laboratories. He also cofounded preclinical screening firm VivoPath. Lambert holds a PhD in neuropharmacology from Imperial College London and a BSc in pharmacology from the University of Liverpool.

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