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Dr. Gerd Kempermann, head of the research group "Neuronal Stem Cells" at the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC) Berlin-Buch, Germany, has accepted an appointment as full professor at the Center for Regenerative Therapies Dresden (CRTD) starting in June 2007. His research focuses on neuronal stem cells and neurogenesis in the adult brain. He is especially interested in determining to what extent physical and intellectual activity regulates adult neurogenesis and thus contributes to adaptation processes in the young and aging brain. 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.
Barbara Bachtler
Press and Public Affairs
Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC) Berlin-Buch
Robert-Rössle-Straße 10
13125 Berlin, Germany
Phone: +49 (0) 30 94 06 - 38 96
Fax: +49 (0) 30 94 06 - 38 33
e-mail: presse@mdc-berlin.de
http://www.mdc-berlin.de/englisch/about_the_mdc/public_relations/e_index.htm
Further information:
Katrin Bergmann
Press Contact
Center for Regenerative Therapies Dresden (CRTD)
Dresden University of Technology (TUD)
Am Tatzberg 47 - 49
01307 Dresden, Germany
Phone: +49 (0) 351-463 40347
Fax: +49 (0)351-463 40348
e-mail: katrin.bergmann@crt-dresden.de
http://www.crt-dresden.de/pdf/PK_Einladung_19.06.pdf
http://www.crt-dresden.de
Professor Gerd Kempermann
Photo: David Ausserhofer/Copyright: MDC
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