Affiliation: University of Reading, School of Pharmacy

Dr. Widera is an Associate Professor in Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine at the University of Reading. His lab is mainly interested in adult stem cells and their secretome, inflammatory signaling cascades in health and disease, and novel methods for clinical-grade 3D-cultivation of human (stem) cells.
He graduated in Biochemistry (Witten/Herdecke University, Germany) and received his PhD in Neurobiochemistry from the Witten/Herdecke University in Germany in 2007. From 2013 to 2015, he served as a Principal Investigator and Adjunct Professor at the Department of Cell Biology, University of Bielefeld (Germany). In February 2015, he was appointed Lecturer in Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine at the University of Reading and promoted to Associate Professor in 2019. He has published over 80 research manuscripts (h-index of 29). He has presented his research outcomes as invited talks at numerous international conferences in the UK, Germany, USA, Italy, Finland, San Marino, Russia, Malaysia, Singapore, Brazil, and China.