Oliver Brüstle

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Oliver Brüstle (born October 7, 1962 in Biberach an der Riss ) is a German neuropathologist and stem cell researcher.

Life

After graduating from high school in Biberach, Brüstle studied human medicine in Ulm from 1982 to 1989. After receiving his doctorate in 1989, Brüstle moved to the Institute of Neuropathology at the University of Zurich for two years , then until 1993 at the Neurosurgical Clinic at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg . From 1993 to 1997 Oliver Brüstle worked in stem cell research at the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, Bethesda , in the USA. Brüstle is a specialist in neuropathology. In 1999 he completed his habilitation with the thesis on plasticity and reconstructive potential of neural progenitor cells at the University of Bonn . After working as a group leader at the Institute for Neuropathology at the University of Bonn from 1997 to 2002, he was appointed to the newly established Chair for Reconstructive Neurobiology at the University of Bonn in 2002. Brüstle is the Scientific Director of LIFE & BRAIN GmbH and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Stem Cell Research Competence Network NRW. Brüstle is married and has four children.

Research activity

As the first researcher in Germany, Brüstle applied for funding for research on embryonic stem cells from the German Research Foundation (DFG) in 2000 , triggering an ethical debate that in the meantime led to the researchers being placed under police protection, and which was finally adopted in 2002 of the Stem Cell Act , which allows research on human embryonic stem cells under certain conditions. After this law came into force and the approval by the Central Ethics Commission for Stem Cell Research at the Robert Koch Institute (RKI), Brüstle imported four stem cell lines from Israel. His current research interests include cell reprogramming and the extraction of brain and spinal cord cells from pluripotent stem cells as well as their use for disease research, drug development and cell therapy.

Brüstle judgment

Brüstle became known beyond medical research when he obtained a patent for the production of neural progenitor cells from embryonic stem cells . However, the patent was declared inadmissible by the European Court of Justice (ECJ) on October 18, 2011 at the instigation of Greenpeace (Case: C-34/10).

Honors

In 2000 Oliver Brüstle received the Benningsen-Förder-Preis and in 2004 the XO Award, which is presented by Hennessy together with the Financial Times Deutschland . Brüstle has been a member of the Leopoldina since 2009 and of the EMBO since 2014 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Oliver Brüstle in the Munzinger archive , accessed on October 19, 2011 ( beginning of the article freely available) ( archive version ( memento from October 19, 2011 on WebCite ))
  2. ↑ Prof. Dr. Oliver Brüstle - Ulm University. In: uni-ulm.de. Archived from the original on October 19, 2011 ; Retrieved October 19, 2011 .
  3. ↑ LIFE & BRAIN GmbH. In: lifeandbrain.de. Archived from the original on October 20, 2011 ; Retrieved October 20, 2011 .
  4. ↑ Competence network stem cell research NRW: Organization & structure. In: stem cells.nrw.de. Archived from the original on October 20, 2011 ; Retrieved October 20, 2011 .
  5. ↑ DW: Stem cell researchers are under police protection. In: welt.de. July 24, 2001, archived from the original on October 20, 2011 ; Retrieved October 20, 2011 .
  6. ↑ Three more applications from researchers: First stem cell import approved. In: handelsblatt.com. December 23, 2002, archived from the original on October 20, 2011 ; Retrieved October 20, 2011 .
  7. ↑ Claudia Ehrenstein: No patent on embryo stem cells. In: welt.de. October 18, 2011, archived from the original on October 19, 2011 ; Retrieved October 19, 2011 .
  8. ↑ European Court Bans Patents on Embryonic Stem Cells , Spiegel Online, October 18, 2011.
  9. ↑ ECJ prohibits patents on embryonic stem cells
  10. ↑ embryo cells in German laboratories . In: Spiegel Online, October 19, 2000, accessed October 19, 2011.
  11. ^ Zeppelin University. In: zeppelin-university.de. Archived from the original on October 20, 2011 ; Retrieved October 20, 2011 .
  12. ↑ Member entry by Prof. Dr. Oliver Brüstle (with picture and CV) at the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina , accessed on July 3, 2016.
  13. ↑ EMBO enlarges its membership for 50th anniversary. Press release from May 8, 2014 at the Science Information Service (idw-online.de)
personal data
SURNAME Brüstle, Oliver
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German neuropathologist
DATE OF BIRTH October 7, 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Biberach an der Riss