James Adjaye

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.^[2] He then enrolled at the University of Sussex a year later for further studies in Biochemistry, there, he was awarded his Master of Science degree in biochemistry in 1989 under the supervision of Dr. Felicity Watts.^[6] 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.^[2] Adjaye's thesis was on cDNA cloning and immunological properties of a squid neurofilament gene homologue.^[7] 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.^[5][4]

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.^[8][9] He has worked in this capacity to date. In 2012, he became a professor at the Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf.^[10] 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.^[5][4][10]