Heinrich has his professional focus on development of pharmaceutical products in the field of nanotechnology and drug & RNA delivery. In his Ph.D. in the group of Prof. Dr. Helmuth Möhwald at Johannes-Gutenberg Universität Mainz and academic career in Italy and Brazil he researched lipid membranes and organized bio-molecular systems. Having moved to pharmaceutical industry he developed nanoparticle products with application in cancer, inflammatory diseases autoimmune diseases and other indications. At BioNTech, he is the scientific lead of the formulation and analytics department, which develops RNA therapeutics based on a broad scope of delivery technologies.