Jan-Bernd Stukenborg

I am working right now as senior lecturer and group leader (NORDFERTIL research lab Uppsala) at the Department of Organismal Biology, Uppsala University and are an affiliated researcher at the Department of Women’s and Children’s Health, Childhood Cancer Research Unit, Karolinska Institutet and University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden. In addtion to my work as group leader, I am the research coordinator of NORDFERTIL (www.nordfertil.org).


*COURSES AND DEGREES*
2001 - 2005 - Study of Biology, Westphalian Wilhelms University (WWU), Münster Germany
2005 - Diploma-thesis (Master Thesis; Biology), Centre of Reproductive Medicine and Andrology (CeRA), WWU, Münster, Germany & University of
Pittsburgh, USA
2005 - 2009 - Ph.D.-studies (Biology), CeRA, WWU, Münster, Germany


*DOCTORAL DEGREE*
2009 - Biology (Reproductive Biology), Title: “/In vitro/ differentiation of male germ cells.” CeRA, WWU, Münster, Germany; PhD supervision: Prof.
Dr. E. Liebau; Prof. Dr. S. Schlatt


*POSTDOC APPOINTMENTS*
2009 – 2013 - Post-Doc at the Department of Women’s and Children’s Health, Pediatric Endocrinology Unit, Karolinska Institutet; supervision:
Prof. Dr. Olle Söder


*DOCENT-LEVEL COMPETENCE*
2016 - Docent in Reproductive Biology; Karolinska Institutet

*Ongoing supervision of a PhD candidate:*
1) Hajar Ali Mohammed Ba Omar, Karolinska Institutet
Title: “Effects of haematological and oncological diseases on
spermatogonial stem cell populations in boys.”
Registration: 2018-09-04
main supervisor: Jan-Bernd Stukenborg, PhD (Uppsala University & Karolinska Institutet, Sweden); 
co-supervision: Kirsi Jahnukainen, MD, PhD (Karolinska Institutet, Sweden),
Nikolas Herold, MD (Karolinska Institutet)

*Ongoing supervision of a PhD candidate as co-supervisor:*
1) Ieva Masliukaite, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Title: “Propagation of human SSCs”.
Registration: 2015-10-20; main supervisor: Sjoerd Repping, MD, PhD
(University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands), co-supervision: Ans M. M. van
Pelt, PhD (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands), Jan-Bernd Stukenborg,
PhD (Karolinska Institutet, Sweden).
2) Melanie Poganitsch-Korhonen, University of Helsinki, Finland;
Title: “Male fertility, late morbidity and ageing after childhood cancer”
Registration: 2014-09-24; main supervisor Kirsi Jahnukainen, MD, PhD
(University of Helsinki, Finland), co-supervision: Jan-Bernd Stukenborg, PhD
(Karolinska Institutet, Sweden)

*PhD candidates supervised up to the defence of the candidate’s doctoral 
thesis:*
1) Femke Harteveld, Karolinska Institutet
Title: “Macrophages and the testicular microenvironment in humans.”
Defence: 2025-06-05
main supervisor: Jan-Bernd Stukenborg, PhD (Uppsala University & Karolinska Institutet, Sweden); 
co-supervision: Kirsi Jahnukainen, MD, PhD (Karolinska Institutet, Sweden);
Susana Chuva de Sousa Lopes, PhD (University of Leiden, The Netherlands)1) Yanhua Cui, Karolinska Institutet
Title: “Novel strategies to preserve future fertility in boys and men.”
Registration: 2018-09-11
main supervisor: Jan-Bernd Stukenborg, PhD (Karolinska Institutet, Sweden);
co-supervision: Kirsi Jahnukainen, MD, PhD (Karolinska Institutet, Sweden),
Michael Landreh, PhD (Karolinska Institutet
2) Yifan Yang, Karolinska Institutet
Title: “Effects of medical treatments of gonadal development in boys and
men.”
Defence: 2025-05-21
main supervisor: Jan-Bernd Stukenborg, PhD (Uppsala University & Karolinska Institutet, Sweden); 
co-supervision: Kirsi Jahnukainen, MD, PhD (Karolinska Institutet, Sweden);
Jingtao Guo, PhD (University of Utah, USA)

3) Bethel Embiae, Karolinska Institutet
Title: "Functional characterization and targeting of neuroblastoma cell of
origin"
Defence: 2025-05-07; main supervisor: Ninib Baryawno, PhD (Karolinska 
Institutet); co-supervision: John Inge Johnson, PhD (Karolinska Institutet),
Malin Wickström Näsman, PhD (Karolinska Institutet), Jan-Bernd Stukenborg,
PhD (Karolinska Institutet)

4) Magdalena Kurek, Karolinska Institutet
Title: “Human induced pluripotent stem cells differentiation towards the
male germ cell lineage.”
Defence: 2019-10-25
main supervisor: Jan-Bernd Stukenborg, PhD (Karolinska Institutet, Sweden);
co-supervision: Olle Söder, MD, PhD (Karolinska Institutet, Sweden), Sarita
Panula, PhD (Karolinska Institutet), Rod Mitchell, MD, PhD (University
Edinburgh, UK)
5) Halima Al-Balushi, Karolinska Institutet
Title: “In vitro models aiming for fertility preservation.”
Defence: 2018-11-16
main supervisor: Jan-Bernd Stukenborg, PhD (Karolinska Institutet, Sweden);
co-supervision: Olle Söder, MD, PhD (Karolinska Institutet, Sweden); Outi
Hovatta, MD, PhD (Karolinska Institutet, Sweden); Elisabet Åkesson, MD, PhD
(Karolinska Institutet, Sweden)
6) Joao Pedro Alves Lopes, Karolinska Institutet
Title: “Novel culture systems to model testicular function and
organization.”Defense: 2018-08-31
main supervisor: Jan-Bernd Stukenborg, PhD (Karolinska Institutet, Sweden);
co-supervision: Olle Söder, MD, PhD (Karolinska Institutet, Sweden), Ellen
Goossens, PhD (VUB, Belgium)
7) Mina Nikolova Mincheva, University of Münster, Germany
Title: “Interaction of male gonadal cell types in differentiation cell
culture” Defense: 2018-03-15
main supervisor: Stefan Schlatt, PhD (University of Münster, Germany),
co-supervision: Sylvia Kaiser, PhD (University of Münster, Germany),
Jan-Bernd Stukenborg, PhD (Karolinska Institutet, Sweden)
8) Ahmed Reda, Karolinska Institutet
Title: “Artificial testis to study early gonadal development and germ cell
differentiation.”
Defence: 2016-09-30;
main supervisor: Jan-Bernd Stukenborg, PhD (Karolinska Institutet, Sweden);
co-supervision: Olle Söder, MD, PhD (Karolinska Institutet, Sweden); Kirsi
Jahnukainen, MD, PhD (Karolinska Institutet, Sweden & University of Helsinki,
Finland
9) Sarita Panula, Karolinska Institutet
Title: “Differentiation and charaterization of human iPSC derived germ
cells and the derivation of patient specific iPSC lines for the study of
infertility.” Defence: 2015-06-09; main supervisor: Outi Hovatta, MD, PhD (Karolinska
Institutet, Sweden); co-supervision: Olle Söder, MD, PhD (Karolinska
Institutet, Sweden); Jan-Bernd Stukenborg, PhD (Karolinska Institutet,
Sweden), Renee Reijo Pera (Stanford University, USA)