Wolf Reik studied medicine at the universities of Freiburg and Hamburg and obtained his MD from the University of Hamburg. He did his thesis work with Rudolf Jaenisch, and postdoctoral work with Azim Surani in Cambridge. In 1987, he became a Fellow of the Lister Institute of Preventive Medicine at Cambridge. In 1992, he was named Head of the Laboratory of Developmental Genetics, and Head of the Developmental Genetics Programme at the Babraham Institute in Cambridge in 1997. His research interests are in mammalian epigenetics and imprinting. He is a member of scientific advisory boards of international academic institutions, and has won a number of honours and prizes, including the 1994 Wellcome Prize in Physiology. |