Stefan Schoenfelder
Stefan Schoenfelder studied molecular and cell biology at the University of Heidelberg, where he also completed his PhD in Professor Renato Paro’s lab. In 2005, he joined Peter Fraser’s lab at the Babraham Institute in Cambridge, aiming to better understand how developmental gene expression programmes are coordinated in space and time in mammalian nuclei. During his time in the Fraser lab, he developed technology to capture long-range regulatory chromatin contacts, such as those between enhancers and their target promoters, on a genome-wide scale. In 2019, supported by an MRC Rutherford Fellowship with the UK Regenerative Medicine Platform, he established his independent research group at the Babraham Institute, where his team studies how gene regulatory elements control cell fate decisions in human pluripotent stem cells. He currently splits his time between his academic position and his role as scientific advisor for Enhanc3D Genomics, a spinout he co-founded in 2020 based on chromosome conformation capture technology he developed. The Babraham Research Campus is a leading hub supporting early-stage bioscience enterprise, uniquely co-locating bioscience companies with the world-leading discovery research of the Babraham Institute.
