Alexander Meissner, PhD

Director at Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Germany, Professor at Harvard University

2012 NYSCF – Robertson Stem Cell Investigator Alumnus

PhD, Saarland University, Germany

Postdoctoral Training, Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research at MIT

Bio

Dr. Meissner is a Professor at Harvard University and Director and Head of the Department of Genome Regulation at the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Germany. He is developing and applying next-generation sequencing technologies to the human genome with the goal of better understanding normal and diseased cellular states and how to alter them. He completed his postdoctoral studies at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research at MIT.