Jan-Bernd Stukenborg

Jan-Bernd Stukenborg

Senior Lecturer | Docent
Telephone: +46852482788
Visiting address: BioMedicum A4, Solnavägen 9, 17165 Solna
Postal address: K6 Kvinnors och barns hälsa, K6 Barnonkologi och Barnkirurgi Stukenborg, 171 77 Stockholm
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About me

  • I am working right now as senior lecturer and group leader (NORDFERTIL research lab Stockholm) 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

Research

  • *Main research areas: *
    * Germ cell differentiation /in vivo/ and /in vitro./
    * Fertility preservation techniques in children with gonadal dysfunctions.
    * Experiments on /in vitro/ differentiation techniques include novel cell culture approaches with human and animal gonadal cells as well as human
    embryonic and human induced pluripotent stem cells (hESCs and hiPSCs).

Teaching

  • *Ongoing supervision of a PhD candidate:*
    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) 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 (Karolinska Institutet, Sweden)

  • co-supervision: Kirsi Jahnukainen, MD, PhD (Karolinska Institutet, Sweden),
    Nikolas Herold, MD (Karolinska Institutet)
    3) Yifan Yang, Karolinska Institutet
    Title: “Effects of medical treatments of gonadal development in boys and
    men.”
    Registration: 2020-01-15
    main supervisor: Jan-Bernd Stukenborg, PhD (Karolinska Institutet, Sweden)

  • co-supervision: Kirsi Jahnukainen, MD, PhD (Karolinska Institutet, Sweden)

  • Jingtao Guo, PhD (University of Utah, USA)
    4) Femke Harteveld, Karolinska Institutet
    Title: “Macrophages and the testicular microenvironment in humans.”
    Registration: 2020-10-10
    main supervisor: Jan-Bernd Stukenborg, PhD (Karolinska Institutet, Sweden)

  • co-supervision: Kirsi Jahnukainen, MD, PhD (Karolinska Institutet, Sweden)

  • Susana Chuva de Sousa Lopes, PhD (University of Leiden, The Netherlands)
    *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)
    3) Bethel Embiae, Karolinska Institutet
    Title: "Functional characterization and targeting of neuroblastoma cell of
    origin"
    Registration: 2021-01.20
  • 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)
    *PhD candidates supervised up to the defence of the candidate’s doctoral
    thesis:*
    1) Magdalena Kurek, Karolinska Institutet
    Title: “Human induced pluripotent stem cells differentiation towards the
    male germ cell lineage.”
    Registration: 2015-01-19
  • halftime seminar: 2017-05-31
  • 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)
    2) Halima Al-Balushi, Karolinska Institutet
    Title: “In vitro models aiming for fertility preservation.”
    Registration: 2014-04-22
  • halftime seminar: 2016-08-31
  • 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)
    3) Joao Pedro Alves Lopes, Karolinska Institutet
    Title: “Novel culture systems to model testicular function and
    organization.” Registration: 2015-01-19
  • halftime seminar: 2017-06-07

  • 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)
    4) Mina Nikolova Mincheva, University of Münster, Germany
    Title: “Interaction of male gonadal cell types in differentiation cell
    culture” Registration: 2015-01-01
  • 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)
    5) Ahmed Reda, Karolinska Institutet
    Title: “Artificial testis to study early gonadal development and germ cell
    differentiation.”
    Registration: 2012-04-24
  • halftime seminar: 2014-06-03
  • 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
    6) 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.” Registration: 2009-11-12
  • halftime seminar: 2012-09-18

  • 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)

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Grants

Employments

  • Senior Lecturer, Department of Women's and Children's Health, Karolinska Institutet, 2021-

Degrees and Education

  • Docent, Karolinska Institutet, 2016

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