Karim Nayernia

Profesor Nayernia is an alumnus of the University of Göttingen,^[1] where he completed his studies and later earned his habilitation in Molecular Human Genetics in 2003 at the Georg-August University Medical Faculty. He worked at the university of Göttingen until 2006, when he joined Newcastle University as a Professor of Stem Cell Biology at theInstitute of Human Genetics.^[2][3]

In 2006, Nayernia and his research team used sperm derived from embryonic stem cells to fertilize mice, resulting in seven offspring; one died shortly after birth and the remaining six exhibited health abnormalities.^[4][5][6][7] In 2009, Nayernia and his team reported the creation of human sperm-like cells from male stem cells in the laboratory for the first time.^[8]

• 1993 dissertations at Institut für Humangenetik, University of Göttingen Archived 19 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine
• Newscientist.com