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Robert Zweigerdt
Principle Investigator
Medizinische Hochschule Hannover / Hannover Medical School
Hannover
Germany
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Robert is a developmental biologist and received training in stem cell research and bioprocessing in academia and in biotechnology companies in Germany and in Singapore. Since 2009, he is Principal Investigator at the “Research Center for Translational Regenerative Medicine“ (REBIRTH) at Hannover Medical School. His group aims at adapting stirred tank bioreactor technologies for the efficient production of hPSC and their progenies to promote the clinical translation of advanced cell therapies. Moreover, he is investigating basic mechanisms of mesendodermal priming, differentiation, and formation of novel Heart Forming Organoids, to provide complex in vitro models on aspects of human development and pathology