WSSTERM-2025

Beate Winner studied Medicine in Regensburg, Würzburg and Toronto. Her MD thesis was carried out at the Department of Medicine, University of Würzburg. She is a board examined neurologist with the clinical focus in neurodegenerative diseases. After completing the postdoctoral lecturer qualification, she joined the Laboratory of Genetics (Prof. FH Gage) at the Salk Institute, La Jolla as a Feodor-Lynen fellow. Dr. Winner started her own laboratory in Erlangen as head of the IZKF junior research group in 2011. She was the first laboratory at the FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg to introduce human induced pluripotent stem cell technology. Prof. Winner was appointed W2 professor for Stem Cell based Models of Rare Neural Diseases. She is the Head of the Department of Stem Cell Biology at the Institute of Human Genetics (Head Prof. Reis) at the Universitätsklinikum Erlangen, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg and is currently the Speaker of the Center of Rare Diseases Erlangen (ZSEER).