Anna M. Wobus

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Anna Magdalene Wobus b. Knietsch (born December 17, 1945 in Bad Elster ) is a German biologist, known for stem cell research .

Life

Wobus first did an agricultural apprenticeship at an agricultural research institute near Leipzig and at the same time graduated from high school in 1964. She then studied biology and genetics at the University of Greifswald, among others with the geneticist Elisabeth Günther. Then she was at the Institute for Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research in Gatersleben (an institute of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR) and received her doctorate from the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg . In Gatersleben, she worked in a developmental biology research group that was founded in 1978 and used the methods of Beatrice Mintz to study teratoma cells as a model system, and she began researching stem cells there. Since 1992 she has headed her own research group in Gatersleben. In 1997 she completed her habilitation at the medical faculty in Halle.

Wobus developed methods of culturing and differentiating embryonic stem cells. She studied the in vitro differentiation of embryonic stem cells into cells of the heart, pancreas and liver, for example. She also studied toxicological effects using differentiated stem cells.

In 2011 she and her husband received the Cothenius Medal and in 2003 the Science Prize: Society needs science (for work on diabetes and stem cell therapy). She has been a member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities , of the Leopoldina since 2001 and a corresponding member of the North Rhine-Westphalia Academy of Sciences and Arts since 2012 .

She is married to the biologist Ulrich Wobus (* 1942) and has two children. Ulrich Wobus was founding director of what was now the Leibniz Institute in Gatersleben after reunification.

Publications (selection)

  • with others: stem cell research and cell therapy. State of knowledge and general conditions in Germany. With contributions by Christine Hauskeller and Jochen Taupitz. Munich 2006
  • with Peter Löser: Current developments in research with human embryonic stem cells , Naturwissenschaftliche Rundschau, Volume 60, 2007, pp. 229–237

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Wobus at the Berlin Brandenburg Academy of Sciences
  2. ↑ Member entry of Anna M. Wobus (with picture and CV) at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on July 20, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Wobus, Anna M.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wobus, Anna Magdalene
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German biologist
DATE OF BIRTH December 17, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Bad Elster