Björn Stork 11th International Symposium on Autophagy 2025

Björn Stork

Björn Stork has held the W2 professorship for “Molecular Biology of the Cellular Stress Response” at the Institute for Molecular Medicine I, Düsseldorf University Hospital, since 2017. He studied biochemistry at Bielefeld University (1996–2001), including a semester at McGill University, Montréal, and completed his diploma thesis in 2002. From 2002 to 2006, he pursued his doctorate in Bielefeld, Göttingen, and at Kansai Medical University in Osaka, Japan, under the supervision of Jürgen Wienands and Tomohiro Kurosaki, focusing on Ca²⁺ signaling in B lymphocytes. Between 2006 and 2011, he led a junior research group in molecular gastroenterology and hepatology at the University of Tübingen and conducted a research stay at the Norwegian Radium Hospital in Oslo (group of Harald Stenmark). From 2011 to 2017, he was group leader at the Institute for Molecular Medicine I in Düsseldorf, where he habilitated in 2013 with a thesis on apoptosis and autophagy signaling. His research focuses on the molecular biology of the cellular stress response, with particular emphasis on autophagy signaling and the regulation of the ULK1 complex.