How Metaphors shape Biotechnology

Dr. Stefan Dübel, born in 1960, is full Professor of Biotechnology at the Technische Universität Braunschweig, Germany. He co-pioneered in animal-free antibody selection technologies, including antibody phage display, human naive antibody libraries and antibody libraries with randomized CDRs. His contributions to human antibody engineering, phage display, in vitro evolution resulted in >300 publications and >25 patent applications. He is editor of the four-volume reference "Handbook of Therapeutic Antibodies", the textbook "Rekombinante Antikörper" (2019, Springer VH) and other antibody engineering books. So far, two antibodies generated in his lab reached clinical use for the treatment of cancer and COVID19.Dr. Stefan Heuser, born in 1971, is Professor of Systematic Theology and Ethics in the Institute for Protestant Theology and Religious Education at the Technical University of Braunschweig, Germany. His current research focuses on the ethics of technology, bioethics, care ethics, social ethics and educational ethics. He recently published the edited volumes „Zusammenwirken von natürlicher und künstlicher Intelligenz: Beurteilen – Messen – Bewerten“ (2025, Springer VS) and „Von der Krise zur Kritik. Theologische Sozialethik und Soziologie im Dialog“ (2024, Evangelische Verlagsanstalt).