Dr. Axel Schumacher (born 1969) is a scientist in the field of genetics and epigenetics. He received several international awards, such as the NARSAD Young Investigator award or the Michael Smith Award for schizophrenia research, which is awarded annually in memory of Dr. Michael Smith, the 1993 Nobel Prize winner in Chemistry.
Dr. Schumacher began his research career as a student in the laboratory of Dr. Wolf Reik at the Babraham Institute in Ca...
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Dr. Axel Schumacher (born 1969) is a scientist in the field of genetics and epigenetics. He received several international awards, such as the NARSAD Young Investigator award or the Michael Smith Award for schizophrenia research, which is awarded annually in memory of Dr. Michael Smith, the 1993 Nobel Prize winner in Chemistry.
Dr. Schumacher began his research career as a student in the laboratory of Dr. Wolf Reik at the Babraham Institute in Cambridge/UK. He then moved on to the lab of Prof. Walter Doerfler at the University of Cologne/Germany to work on his diploma thesis in the field of genomic imprinting and DNA methylation of transgenic organisms. He earned his PhD. in Genetics for the epigenetic characterization of neurobehavioral imprinting disorders such as Prader-Willi syndrome and Angelman syndrome and for the invention of a new in vitro method to differentiate murine ES cells to neurons, which uses the alkaloid staurosporine. After the completion of a collaborative work...
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