Biography

Helmuth Gehart is Assistant Professor of Tumor and Stem Cell Dynamics at the Institute of Molecular Health Sciences at ETH Zurich since 2020. After studying “Molecular Biology” at University Vienna (Vienna, Austria) as an undergraduate, Helmuth Gehart received his PhD from ETH Zurich (Zurich, Switzerland) in 2013. During his PhD training with Prof. Romeo Ricci, Helmuth studied the mechanisms behind Type II Diabetes and the complex cellular checkpoints that maintain balance to prevent disease. Thereafter, Helmuth entered the fascinating field of stem cell biology and joined the group of Prof. Hans Clevers at the Hubrecht Institute (Utrecht, Netherlands). There he investigated adult tissue stem cells of the liver and intestine and developed new technologies for real-time resolved single-cell RNA sequencing. Throughout his career Helmuth received multiple awards and honors among them the ETH Medal (ETH Zurich), an EMBO long-term fellowship (EMBO) and a VENI talent award (NWO).