Welcome to the Team: Dr. Carina Prell and Arsa Burhan Join Enzidia

We are excited to announce the beginnings of two wonderful talents as Enzidians!

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Dr. Carina Prell joined ENZIDIA in May as a Senior Bioengineer. She was most recently a Senior Organism Engineer and Project Lead at Ginkgo Bioworks, where she built a track record of successfully delivering industrial strain development projects toward commercialisation. Before that, she was trained in the Wendisch lab at Bielefeld University, a world-leading lab in Corynebacterium glutamicum metabolic engineering.

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Despite the heads-up about her exceptional execution power from all 10 of her former colleagues I spoke with, I've still been thoroughly amazed. In less than three weeks, she has made strong contributions across things from strain-engineering technicalities and HPLC methods to poster prep and lab-relocation logistics. She’s knowledgeable, thorough, efficient, and incredibly reliable. If I bring something to her, I know I can sleep soundly without having to worry about it again, because she’s the type who will take ownership and see it through.

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Sincere thanks to our good friend Anke Goormans for suggesting Carina to us, all the 10 colleagues who provided really helpful references, and Ginkgo Bioworks for the training opportunities for another great talent for Enzidia ;)

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You’d be mistaken if you think we just hire for experience. Experience matters, but fundamentally we care about talent, sometimes before the track record makes it apparent.

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Arsa (Imaduddin Ammarsyah Burhan) is one example. He has less research experience than many of the applicants we’ve seen, but he shows a rare level of mental clarity to think through problems, despite being years away from lab research.

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After biotech training at top institutions in Bandung, Wageningen, and Copenhagen, his family duties took Arsa’s career away from the lab and into roles as a delivery driver, mushroom factory farmer, coffee shop barista, and remote biology tutor. He didn’t give up on his passion for biotech, and connected with our team a year ago.

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I kept his name after he successfully maintained clear and active thinking throughout my initial question bombardment session, - a rare feat. We gave each other more opportunities to explore working together, including having him reintroduced to the lab. He embodied our principle of Learning throughout. When the time was right, we made it official.

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Arsa has become a bioengineer at ENZIDIA in May. He is already leading part of a project, and I know that he’ll soon be ready for much more.

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Welcome, Carina and Arsa! ENZIDIA’s path to success is to be built on being the best place for great talents to shine and to matter for the world. You just made the beginning of this path even stronger! 🤝

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‍Adam Meyer, Cathy Yan Jin, Alex Toftgaard Nielsen, ENZIDIA

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