Prof Benjamin Gantenbein is an Associated Professor and is heading the Tissue Engineering for Orthopedics & Mechanobiology (TOM) group at the Medical Faculty at the University of Bern (UBern). He holds a double affiliation at the Department at the Department for Orthopedics & Traumatology and at the Department for BioMedical research (DBMR). His research focuses on intervertebral disc repair using biomaterials and scaffolds, mesenchymal stem cells or a combination thereof. Cross-disciplinary research together with biomedical engineers to design specific bioreactors to host organs/tissues that may require mechanical loading is a main focus. He started his career at the University of Bern in the field of evolutionary biology / phylogenetics where he completed his Master of Science degree and also his PhD at the Computational and Molecular Population Genetics (CMPG) laboratory at UBern. He then received two fellowships (SNF young scientists and a Marie Curie IHP substitute) to focus on animal molecular evolutionary rates at the Institute of Evolutionary Biology, University of Edinburgh to pursue research on the molecular phylogenetics of scorpions. From there he moved to the Genetics and Molecular Ecology Laboratory at Cambridge University, where he focused on recombination in invertebrate mitochondria. Before the current assignment at UBern, Prof. Gantenbein entered into the field of intervertebral disc research at the AO Research Institute in Davos, where he acquired experience in modern concepts of tissue engineering and regenerative medicine.
He is active in the field of tissue engineering, stem cell research (www.stemcellsbern.ch) using a wider range of bone & joint tissues. He teaches lectures on Tissue Engineering in the Biomedical Masters course at UBern and also teaches regenerative medicine at the University of Fribourg and at the University of Basel.
He is active in the field of tissue engineering, stem cell research (www.stemcellsbern.ch) using a wider range of bone & joint tissues. He teaches lectures on Tissue Engineering in the Biomedical Masters course at UBern and also teaches regenerative medicine at the University of Fribourg and at the University of Basel.
