Y. Rinkevich, Phd
Lung Biology and Disease
Helmholtz Zentrum Munich
Germany
Biography
Yuval Rinkevich is the young Principle Investigator with supervising and mentoring position at the Institute for Lung Biology and Disease, Comprehensive Pneumology Center (CPC), Helmholtz Zentrum, Munich, Germany. He obtained a PhD degree in Biology from Technion of Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa in 2008. From 2008 until 2014, he was postdoctoral fellow of Prof. Irving L. Weissman, Stanford Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine at Stanford University, USA. In 2014 he became Basic Life Science Research Associate at Stanford University. He was on the Team of inventors of two Patents regarding ‘Isolation and Characterization of Progenitor Cells from Mesothelium and Methods’ and ‘Compositions for the Prevention and Treatment of Surgical adhedions’. His research is currently funded by grants from the Else-Kröner-Fresenius Stiftung (EKFS), Human Frontier Science Program Organisation (HFSPO), German Research Foundation (DFG) and the Fritz Thyssen Stiftung (FTS). He is member of several Scientific Societies and publishes in peer-reviewed journals, gives lectures at numerous, distinguished Conferences and Institutes as COST, GRC, ICB, TUM, EMBO, TERMIS, BMF and ATS and was recently elected to the ETRS Board.
Research Interest
His lab is exploring the stem cells, embryonic lineages and mechanisms by which tissues/organs regenerate following injury, at multiple levels of biological organization.
