Professor Wolf Reik, FRS, FMedSci

Associate Faculty

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Wolf Reik was an Associate Faculty member of the Wellcome Sanger Institute from 2011 to 2024.

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Wolf Reik is interested in epigenetic gene regulation in mammalian development. His current research focuses on epigenetic heterogeneity in development and ageing, making use of single cell genomics. He is a founding member of the Single Cell Genomics Centre since 2013.  

Wolf obtained his MD from the University of Hamburg, and was an EMBO and Lister Institute Fellow in Cambridge, before becoming Head of the Epigenetics Programme and Associate Director at the Babraham Institute. He is also honorary Professor of Epigenetics at the University of Cambridge. Wolf is an EMBO and Academia Europaea member, and a Fellow of the Royal Society and the Academy of Medical Sciences.

My timeline

• BBSRC Great British Bioscience Pioneer

• Thomson Reuters Highly Cited Researcher

• Nobel Forum Karolinska Research Lecture

• Associate Faculty, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute

• Elected Member of the Academia Europaea

• Elected Fellow of the Royal Society

• Honorary Professor of Epigenetics, University of Cambridge

• Associate Director, Babraham Institute, Cambridge

• Elected Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences

• Elected Member of EMBO

• Wellcome Trust Prize in Physiology

• Member Lister Institute of Preventive Medicine

• Principal Investigator, Babraham Institute, Cambridge

• Fellowship of the Lister Institute of Preventive Medicine

• EMBO Postdoctoral Fellow at AFRC Animal Research Station, Cambridge

• MD University of Hamburg Medical School, Germany