Jürgen Karl-Josef Hescheler (born 2 May 1959) is a German physician and stem cell researcher. He is director to the Institute for Neurophysiology and a university professor at the
University of Cologne
The University of Cologne () is a university in Cologne, Germany. It was established in 1388. It closed in 1798 before being re-established in 1919. It is now one of the largest universities in Germany with around 45,187 students. The Universit ...
. Hescheler has studied the biology of
embryonic stem cells
Embryonic stem cells (ESCs) are Cell potency#Pluripotency, pluripotent stem cells derived from the inner cell mass of a blastocyst, an early-stage pre-Implantation (human embryo), implantation embryo. Human embryos reach the blastocyst stage 4†...
since the late 80's, and his publications have garnered an average total of over 1,000 citations per year since the late 2010's. He became the first researcher to accomplish an electrophysiological characterization of stem cells and was also among the first scientists in Germany obtaining permission to do research on human embryonic stem cells.
He is the founder and Chairman of the
German Society for Stem Cell Research (GSZ).
References
* https://web.archive.org/web/20140110085854/http://www.uni-koeln.de/med-fak/physiologie/np/index.html
Stem Cell Research*
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1959 births
Living people
German medical researchers
Stem cell researchers
Academic staff of the University of Cologne