Richard Schäfer

Richard Schäfer

Professor Richard Schäfer
Medical Director Transfusion Medicine, Deputy Director Institute for Transfusion Medicine and Gene Therapy, Head Freiburg iPS Core
Medical Center, University of Freiburg (Germany)

Session: In vitro studies of stem cell activities – Thursday 15 May (10.30am-12pm)

Richard Schäfer is the Medical Director Transfusion Medicine at the Institute of Transfusion Medicine and Gene Therapy at Freiburg University, where he is also leading the iPSC core facility. He was clinically trained in internal medicine and transfusion medicine. His research addresses both fundamental and translational questions. He has been working extensively in the mesenchymal stromal cell and induced pluripotent stem cell fields at Harvard, Stanford, Tübingen, Frankfurt and Freiburg Universities.