Marius Wernig

Dr. Wernig is a Professor of Pathology at the Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine at Stanford University. He graduated with an MD-PhD from the Technical University of Munich where he studied in the lab of Rudi Balling. Dr.Wernig continued on to do a residency in Neuropathology and General Pathology at the University of Bonn and then became a postdoctoral fellow in the lab of Dr. Rudolf Jaenisch at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research in Cambridge. Dr. Wernig received numerous awards including the Cozzarelli Prize from the National Academy of Sciences U.S.A. the Outstanding Investigator Award from the International Society for Stem Cell Research, the New York Stem Cell Foundation Robertson Stem Cell Prize, and the Ogawa-Yamanaka Stem Cell prize.