Mertens Lab
Neural Aging Laboratory
Institute of Molecular Biology
University of Innsbruck
Reprogramming of Human Skin into Neurons
to understand Age-Related Diseases
"We apply human reprogramming technologies including directly induced neurons (iNs), induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs), and stem cell differentiation based on skin cells from Alzheimer patients and other age-related diseases, to develop the next generation of human disease models."
"By combining basic cellular neuroscience approaches with sequencing-based big data biology, the goal of our lab is to identify the molecular key players of human biological aging to enable the development of new treatment strategies for age-related neurodegenerative diseases, including Alzheimer's Disease.“
Dr. Jerome Mertens, PhD, is a stem cell biologist specialized on modeling neurodegenerative diseases. He is Assistant Professor at the Department of Genomics, Stem Cell Biology & Regenerative Medicine at the Institute of Molecular Biology & CMBI of the University of Innsbruck in Tyrol, Austria, and Staff Scientist in Dr. Rusty Gage's lab at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in San Diego, CA, USA.
PhD student SPIN doctoral school
MSc Lund University, Sweden
BSc Medical University Innsbruck, Austria
PhD student AGE_REG doctoral school
MSc University of Lübeck, Germany
BSc University of Erlangen, Germany
Neuroscience grad school, UCSD
MSc University of Kentucky
BSc University of Alabama
OUR TEAM
JEROME MERTENS
SANTIAGO ARDILES
Medical University Innsbruck
University of Innsbruck