Thorsten Stafforst PhD

Thorsten is a professor of Nucleic Acid Biochemistry at the Interfaculty Institute of Biochemistry at the University of Tuebingen. He studied chemistry in Gottingen and expanded to chemical biology and bio-engineering during his postdoc in Zurich. In 2011, he started his independent lab in Tubingen, supported by an ERC Consolidator Grant. Since 2016, he is a permanent professor in Tubingen supported by a Heisenberg - professorship (DFG). His lab focusses mainly on site-directed RNA editing strategies and their exploitation in life sciences and medicine.