Peter Wernet

Peter Wernet (born August 23, 1941 in Düsseldorf-Flingern ) is a German immunologist . He is considered an expert in the field of transplant diagnostics . Wernet was head of the umbilical cord blood bank at the University Clinic in Düsseldorf.

Life

Peter Wernet studied medicine from 1962 to 1967 at the Universities of Cologne , Geneva and at Guy's Hospital in London . From 1968 to 1971 he was a medical assistant at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen and was licensed in physiology . By a grant from the German Research Foundation at the MPI -Immunbiologie in Freiburg, he was in 1971 in Göttingen with a thesis on the coronary resistance of the artificial heart silently asked his doctorate . 1971 followed a research fellowship at the immunology faculty at Rockefeller University in New York . From 1974 to 1976 he was assistant professor and faculty member there, as well as laboratory director of immunogenetics at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York. In 1977 he became senior assistant in transfusion medicine at the University Clinic in Düsseldorf, and later head of the immunological working group. He was involved in the DFG research group on leukemia research and was secretary of the Collaborative Research Center 120 "Leukemia Research and Immunogenetics". From 1988 to 1992 he worked as a senior physician at the Institute for Blood Coagulation and Transfusion Medicine in Düsseldorf. Since 1993 he has built up a voluntary bone marrow donor database at the University of Düsseldorf and established it as the largest umbilical cord blood stem cell bank in Europe. In 1993 he completed his habilitation at the University of Düsseldorf with a thesis on molecular genetic and immunobiological developments for organ transplants in the field of immunology and transfusion medicine.

Peter Wernet received a 1999 call to the Heinrich-Heine University in Dusseldorf and until 2007 was director of the Institute of Transplantation Diagnostics and Cell Therapeutics (ITZ) at the University of Dusseldorf. Since 1998 he has been President of Netcord, an international association of umbilical cord blood banks. In 1994 he was a founding board member of Eurocord. From 1998 to 2002 he was secretary of the International Society for Experimental Hematology. He is committed u. a. as a member of the steering committee of the competence network stem cell research NRW. He is a member of the editorial boards of Bone Marrow Transplantation and the Journal of Experimental Hematology and Cytotherapy .

In 2001, Wernet founded the company Kourion Therapeutics. Kourion was sold to the private US cord blood bank Viacord in September 2003 . In the same year, Wernet became co-chairman of Viacord's medical and scientific advisory board. In 2012 Wernet took over the management of the cord blood bank Vivocell , which offers the autologous and allogeneic storage of cord blood in Graz .

Wernet is a member of the Catholic student union AV Rheinstein Cologne in the CV .

Act

Wernet's main research area is stem cell research . He sees somatic stem cells from umbilical cord blood as the better alternative to embryonic stem cells, since their use is less problematic both ethically and immunologically. As a founder, he played a key role in the expansion of the Düsseldorf blood bank into an umbilical cord blood bank at the Düsseldorf University Clinic. The umbilical cord blood bank is part of Netcord , an international association of umbilical cord blood banks, whose freezer tanks already hold 100,000 donations.

honors and awards

• 1995 Stratton Prize from the European Blood and Bone Marrow Transplant Society
• 2005 Research award from the German José Carreras Leukemia Foundation with 640,000 euros

Web links

• "Valuable Bio-Garbage" (WDR) ( Memento from January 17, 2003 in the Internet Archive )
• Biography of Peter Wernet (p. 132 f.) (PDF file; 1.14 MB)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Press release Viacord http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/viacell-expands-to-europe-with-the-acquisition-of-kourion-therapeutics-ag-72999217.html
2. ↑ http://google.brand.edgar-online.com/EFX_dll/EDGARpro.dll?FetchFilingHtmlSection1?SectionID=3360755-403040-418753&SessionID=_8RVFSrD8Asih27  ( page can no longer be accessed , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically defective marked. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
3. ↑ Umbilical cord blood bank: New start under new management. Kleine Zeitung , June 27, 2012, archived from the original on September 23, 2014 . 
4. ↑ Previous speakers , AV Rheinstein website, accessed on August 4, 2013.
5. ↑ Beyond the female body ( Memento of the original from September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , February 10, 2003