Torsten Meissner
Assistant Professor Of Surgery at Harvard Medical School
Schools
- Harvard Medical School
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Biography
Harvard Medical School
Torsten Meissner obtained his PhD in biology at Free University, Berlin and moved on to do postdoctoral research in immunology and stem cell research at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Torsten is currently an Instructor in the Department of Surgery at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, a Harvard Medical School affiliated research hospital. His research combines genome, cell, and tissue engineering with the overall goal to take down the immune barrier to transplantation. Torsten is currently developing methods to generate immune-silent, living blood vessels from human induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSC) that can be used for disease modeling and vascular reconstruction.
Education
Harvard University
Postdoctoral training - Immunology & Stem CellsHarvard Medical School
Postdoctoral training - ImmunologyFreie Universität Berlin
Ph.D., Molecular Cell Biology, BiochemistryUNSW
Study abroad programThe University of Bonn
Diploma, Biology
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