How We Can Help Life Sciences & Biotech Companies
Your Technical Partner for Life Sciences & Biotech
You are a researcher or founder with a promising idea or technical prototype and need pragmatic technical support to take the next step? Or you are already building your startup and are now facing scaling issues with your software or capacity constraints in your engineering team?
We combine production-level software engineering, data science, and AI expertise with a research background. We understand that research software and prototypes have different goals from production systems, and can work in either mode depending on what you need.
Dr. Philip Heltweg
Dr. Georg Schwarz
What We Can Help With
- Build prototypes and research software quickly
- Turn research software and prototypes into reliable products
- Add senior engineering capacity when your team needs to scale
- Bootstrap professional engineering processes, such as agile development, and independently evaluate software tools and technical hires
- Plan technical architecture, data pipelines, and AI systems
- Set up software in professional environments, including sovereign cloud and conventional cloud infrastructure
- Improve internal processes with custom software and connected digital workflows
- Provide technical feedback, coaching, and mentorship
How to Start
Book a free intro call or send us an email. We will listen to where you are, what you are building, and whether we are a good fit. No commitment required.
About isselthal industries
isselthal industries is a small engineering firm, run by experienced engineers with a research background. We enjoy working with life sciences and biotech teams on complicated problems, from early prototypes and research software to production-ready systems. We optimize for your progress, not billable hours.
Research Background
We understand how research work, experimental prototypes, and research software differ from production systems - and what each needs to succeed.
Small & Hands-On
You talk directly to us and we implement what we discuss. No middle-layer of sales people or project managers.
Pragmatic Product Focus
We help you make progress with the right level of engineering for your current goals, without requiring detailed technical specifications.
Who We Are

Dr. Philip Heltweg
Product-Minded Engineer
Product-minded engineer with experience as a professional software engineer, technical product manager, and researcher in software engineering and data management. Philip helps teams connect complex technical work with practical product goals.
https://heltweg.org
Dr. Georg Schwarz
Infrastructure Engineer
Infrastructure engineer with extensive experience building and running reliable software systems. Georg manages deployments and cloud platforms, and combines full-stack engineering with experience in research experiments and research software.
https://georg-schwarz.comTalk to Us
We will listen to where you are, what decisions you are facing, and whether we are a good fit. No commitment required.