Dr. Doerre is an all-round life scientist with over 30 years of combined experience in research and teaching. Growing up in Germany Stefan completed studies of chemistry and biochemistry with a master’s thesis in X-ray crystallography and a Ph.D. thesis on the engraftment of the hematopoietic system after bone marrow transplantation in leukemia patients. He then joined the Howard Hughes Medical Institute at Duke University as a postdoctoral fellow to work on the transcriptional regulation of HIV in T cells. He continued his work on the transcriptional regulation of viruses in lymphocytes as an Assistant Professor at Boston University. In 2000, coinciding with the birth of his twin daughters, Dr. Doerre shifted his career to teaching, a lifelong passion of his. After receiving training from the Massachusetts Institute for New Teachers, he worked as a middle school science teacher for a year, followed by a four-year NIH-funded position as Curriculum Developer for CityLab, a high school outreach program in biotechnology at Boston University. In parallel and thereafter, Dr. Doerre has been teaching undergraduate life sciences to adult learners at Boston University with a focus on practical lab skills, inquiry-based learning, and critical data analysis. He expanded the program’s teaching labs with equipment for bioimaging and built a bioprocessing teaching facility with input from industry partners Shire and Biogen where students produce recombinant antibodies.
