Martin J. Stoddart MPhil, PhD

Martin completed his bachelor studies in Biology at the University of Aberystwyth in 1995. He then spent a year in Davos at ARI where he completed his M.Phil in Cartilage Biology. Between 1996-2000 he carried out his doctoral thesis at the University of Nottingham in the field of Cancer Angiogenesis. He then returned to Switzerland to work in the Laboratory for experimental cartilage research in Zurich, initially as Post-Doc and between 2003-2005 as Group Head.

During that time, he also took a 6 month sabbatical at the Center for Molecular Orthopedics, Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Womens Hospital, Boston, to learn viral gene transfer techniques. In 2005 he returned to ARI. He is an Honorary Professor at the Medical Faculty of Albert-Ludwigs University, Freiburg, Germany and at the Institute for Science and Technology in Medicine, University of Keele, United Kingdom.

Since 2009 Dr. Martin Stoddart has been working as a Principal Scientist at the AO Research Institute, where he is responsible for the Stem Cell Focus Area.