Gustav Steinhoff initiated and leads the Reference and Translation Center for Cardiac Stem Cell Therapy (RTC) of the University Medical Center Rostock. He is known as an expert in the medical field of stem cell therapies and the first clinician to treat patients with intramyocardial transplantation of purified stem cells and is one of the pioneers of these new therapies. Besides his medical study at the Erasmus University Rotterdam, Gustav Steinhoff performed research at the Baylor College in Houston, Texas. He has worked as a surgeon at the University of Kiel and the Medical School Hannover, where he was appointed as an Associate Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery in 1998. In 2000 he moved to the University of Rostock as a Director and Chairman of the Department of Cardiac Surgery where he continued his research on cardiac stem cell therapies and tissue engineering.

Basic molecular mechanisms of human stem cell differentiation

Molecular mechanisms and technologies for (re-)programming

Analytical methods to classify stem cell fate and function

Specific features of different human stem cell types

Physiology and pathology of stem cells

1 History of regenerative medicine, Raymund E Horch, Laurentiu M Popescu, and Elias Polykandriotis.- 2 Regulatory frameworks for cell and tissue based therapies, Gudrun Tiedemann.- 3 Ethics and Law in Regenerative Medicine, Nikolaus Knoepffler, Tade Matthias Spranger, Nikolai Münch, Martin O'Malley.- 4 Guidelines for preclinical development, Edward Spack.- 5 Central Nervous System: Stem Cell-based Cell- and Gene-Therapy, Seung U. Kim.- 6 Central Nervous System: Trauma, Kewal K. Jain.- 7 Peripheral nervous system, Júlia Teixeira Oliveira.- 8 Regenerative Therapies for the Ocular Surface, Geeta K Vemuganti, Virender S Sangwan, Indumathi Mariappan, Praveen Joseph, Dorairajan Balasubramanian.- 9 Regenerative Therapies for Retinopathy, Ramesh Periasamy and Rajashekhar Gangaraju.- 10 Lacrimal Gland Regeneration: Progress and Promise, Geeta K Vemuganti and Shubha Tiwari.- 11 The development of a stem cell therapy for deafness, Nopporn Jongkamonwiwat, Leila Abbas,Darrell Barrott, Sarah L. Boddy, A. Sameer Mallick and Marcelo N. Rivolta.- 12 Oral and Maxillo-facial, Kristina Arvidson, Michele Cottler-Fox, Sølve Hellem, Kamal Mustafa.- 13 Trachea, Silvia Baiguera, Paolo Macchiarini.- 14 Stem Cell Therapy for Neonatal Lung Diseases, Pierro M,, Thébaud B.- Index.