Prof. James Adjaye’s was appointed as Director of the newly established Institute for Stem Cell Research and Regenerative Medicine (ISRM) in May 2012. He was a group leader of the Molecular Embryology and Aging Group at the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics (Berlin) and co-ordinated livSYSiPS - The systems biology of network stress based on data generated from in vitro differentiated hepatocytes derived from individual-specific human iPS cells (ERASysBio Plus).
This multi-national (Germany, UK, Italy USA and Austria) project employed a systems biology approach to investigate the etiology of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease which comprises a broad spectrum of disease states ranging from manageable stress as in simple steatosis to excessive stress, as in steatohepatitis.
In 2022 Prof. Adjaye was appointed as Honorary Professor at the University College London (UCL), UCL EGA Institute for Womens Health (https://profiles.ucl.ac.uk/92903-james-adjaye).
Curriculum Vitae
| 2022-present | Honorary Professor at the University College London (UCL), UCL EGA Institute for Womens Health |
| May, 2012 | Chair of Stem Cell Research and Regenerative Medicine and Director of the Institute for Stem Cell Research and Regenerative Medicine, University Hospital of Duesseldorf (UKD), Germany. |
| 2002- Present | Group Leader of the Molecular Embryology and Aging Group, Department of Vertebrate Genomics (Director: Prof. Hans Lehrach), Max-Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Berlin, Germany. |
| 1996-2001 | Postdoctoral Fellow (MRC funded) at the Molecular Embryology Unit (Prof. Marilyn Monk / 1996 -1999) and Molecular Medicine Unit (Prof. Peter Scambler / 2000 - 2001), Institute of Child Health, University College London, UK. |
| 1992-1995 | Postdoctoral Fellow (Max Planck Fellowship) at the Department of Biochemistry (Director: Prof. Klaus Weber), Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Goettingen, Germany. |
| 1992 (6 months) | Postdoctoral Fellow (Arthritic Research Council Fellowship) at the Rheumatology Unit, Division of Medicine (Director: Prof. Gabriel Panayi) (UMDS), Guy's Hospital, London, UK. |
| 1989-1992 | PhD (Biochemistry and Molecular Biology) at the King's College London, UK. Dissertation : cDNA cloning and immunological properties of a squid neurofilament gene homologue |
| 1988-1989 | MSc: Biochemistry (Genetic Manipulation and Molecular Biology) at the University of Sussex, Brighton, UK. Thesis: Cloning and analysis of Alzheimer's disease amyloid A4 protein gene homologue in Drosophila |
| 1984 -1987 | BSc (Honours) Biochemistry at the University College Cardiff, Wales. |
