Dr Ronny Nienhold is a senior postdoc in Dr Kirsten Mertz’s lab and Head of the Molecular Pathology lab at the Cantonal Hospital Baselland. In the frame of this FTC project (link below), he is responsible for the SARS-COV-2 experimental PCR. During his PhD, he developed custom NGS workflows in order to elucidate the molecular background of myeloproliferative diseases.