MDC Stem Cell Researcher Dr. Gerd Kempermann Appointed Professor in Dresden
In Dresden
he will head a research group on “Genomics of Regeneration”, whose aim is to
explore complex processes such as the new formation of nerve cells and their
development that are determined not by single genes but rather by networks of
genes.
Gerd
Kempermann, born in Cologne, Germany in 1965, studied medicine in his native
city and later in Freiburg. After completing
his PhD in 1993, he went to the Salk Institute in La Jolla, California, USA on a German Research Foundation
(DFG) fellowship. In 2000 Dr. Kempermann, who is both a medical doctor and
neurobiologist, took a position at MDC in Berlin-Buch as head of the research
group “Neuronal Stem Cells”.
In 1999 he
was awarded the Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Prize for his research in neurogenesis. In
highly cited research studies published in the past years, he and his research
team have described how nerve cell development originating from stem cells is
characterized in detail in the adult brain. Besides his scientific work,
Professor Kempermann has also written articles for newspapers and magazines and
has served as an expert consultant – most recently at a German Parliament
hearing on revision of the country’s current stem cell legislation.
Professor Gerd Kempermann (Photo: David Ausserhofer/Copyright: MDC)
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Katrin Bergmann
Press
Contact
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