Jan-Bernd Stukenborg

Expanding the Horizon of Male Infertility Treatment Options at Session 4 on Thursday 11th April and Deeper insights into factors affecting uterine health at Session 8 on Friday 12th April

Jan-Bernd Stukenborg is currently Associate Professor and Senior Lecturer at the Department of Women’s & Children’s Health at Karolinska Institutet and University Hospital, Sweden. He studied biology at the Westphalian Wilhelms University (WWU) in Münster, Germany and in 2005 obtained his M.Sc. title after a joint project at the Center of Reproductive Medicine and Andrology (CeRA) in Münster, and University of Pittsburgh, PA, USA. In 2009, he received his Ph.D. in reproductive biology at the WWU in Münster.

Afterwards, he moved to Sweden as a post-doc at the Paediatric Endocrinology Unit at Karolinska Institutet, and in 2019 he became a group leader at Childhood Cancer Research Unit in his current Department. His main research interests include biology of germ cell differentiation, prenatal gonadal development, use of pluripotent stem cells in reproductive biology, environmental/medical treatment related disruptions of male fertility and fertility preservation techniques.

He is currently a research project manager of Nordic Centre for Fertility Preservation (NORDFERTIL; a consortium of 8 Nordic and Baltic countries, www.nordfertil.org), with the main aim of preserving future fertility and hormonal functions in young boys with disorders and treatments threatening testicular function.