Gerd Kempermann, MD

Gerd Kempermann, M.D., was born in Cologne, Germany and studied medicine in Cologne and Freiburg. After two years of residency in Neuropathology he became postdoctoral fellow in Fred H. Gage's group at the Salk Institute in La Jolla. Since then he has been working on the biology of endogenous neural stem cells in the healthy and diseased brain and on the functional relevance of adult neurogenesis. Since 2000 he is research group leader at the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in Berlin-Buch, where he is heading the "Neural stem cell" unit.