Reinhard studied Biochemistry-Microbiology at the Moscow State Lomonossov University.
After several years of work as a scientist at the pharmaceutical company JENAPHARM, Reinhard did his PhD thesis in expression of heterologous genes at the Institute for Microbiology and Experimental Therapy in Jena. He continued working in this field as scientist and group leader at the Institute for Molecular Biology at Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena.
Reinhard joined Jena Bioscience in 1998 as project leader for the establishment and commercialization of the novel eukaryotic protein expression system "LEXSY".
