TUD Young Investigator and group leader Stephan Speier has been appointed Professor for the Physiology of Pancreatic Islet Cells at the Car Gustav Carus Medical Faculty of TU Dresden.

After studying human biology at the Philipps Universität in Marburg and conducting his doctoral thesis at the Max Planck Institute of Biophysical Chemistry in Göttingen, Stephan Speier worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the Karolinska Institute
in Stockholm (Sweden). In 2009, he joined the Center for Regenerative Therapies Dresden (CRTD) and the Paul Langerhans Institute Dresden as an Emmy Noether Fellow. In 2016, he was also awarded TUD Young Investigator.

In his research, Stephan Speier studies the insulinproducing pancreatic beta-cells, whose malfunction or destruction leads to diabetes.