James Adjaye

James Affram Adjaye is a Ghanaian British stem cell researcher. He is the Director of the Institute for Stem Cell Research and Regenerative Medicine at the Heinrich Heine University's faculty of medicine. He also leads the Molecular Embryology and Aging Group of the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics situated in Berlin, Germany. Adjaye has contributed to multiple research publications on induced pluripotent stem cells.

Early life and education Adjaye had his secondary at the Accra Academy in Ghana, and John Kelly Boys High School in the United Kingdom. He proceeded to the University College of Cardiff where he obtained his Bachelor of Science degree in biochemistry in 1987. For his doctorate degree, Adjaye enrolled at the King's College, London for his research in genetic manipulation and molecular biology spanning from 1989 to 1992. Adjaye then joined the Max Planck Institute of Biophysical Chemistry in Goettingen, Germany in 1992 as a postdoctoral fellow. He worked in that capacity until 1995. In 1996, he had another postdoctoral fellowship at the Institute of Child Health, University College of London and remained there until 2001.

Career

A year after his postdoctoral fellowship at the Institute of Child Health, University College of London, Adjaye joined the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Genetics in Berlin as the group leader of the Molecular Embryology and Aging Group. He has worked in this capacity to date. In 2012, he became a professor at the Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf. There, he is director of the Institute for Stem Cell Research and Regenerative Medicine of the university's Faculty of Medicine. He is the also the Chairs of Stem Cell Research and Regenerative Medicine.

His works have been featured in journals such as the International Journal of Molecular Sciences, EMBO Reports, Stem Cell Research, Cell Reports, the Journal of Alzheimer's Disease,