Tissue Preservation, Life care and Biobanking (B2B & Networking)

Nadja Zeltner completed her Master's degree in Zoology at the University of Zurich, in her native Switzerland. She then earned her Ph.D. in gene therapy and virology at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, followed by a postdoc in stem cell biology and neurodevelopment at the Sloan Kettering Institute in New York. She established her research group as a junior faculty member at the Center for Molecular Medicine at the Universtiy of Georgia in the spring of 2018, where she is also affiliated with the Cellular Biology Department and the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. She has published several high-impact papers describing the in vitro modeling of various diseases as well as pioneered the establishment of in vitro differentiation protocols for a variety of neural cell types.