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Introducing Gerlinde Wernig: Apfelstrudel Meets Microscope Print E-mail
bridges vol. 22, July 2009 / News from the Network: Austrian Researchers Abroad

By Linda Krempl


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Dr. Gerlinde Wernig
Time is very limited in Gerlinde Wernig's life, but she and her husband still don't want to miss the pleasure of homemade Apfelstrudel, so she got herself an apple "peeling-and-cutting" machine with which she proudly claims to make an Apfelstrudel with 6 kg of apples in half an hour! It is enjoyable to hear this energetic woman, who currently works at the Institute of Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine at Stanford University, while finishing her surgical pathology medical training, talking as enthusiastically about her apple peeler-corer as she does about her work. Grasping things instead of quarreling about them seems to have given Gerlinde Wernig a competitive edge throughout her career and in her daily routine.

Coming from a strong family background in the humanities, Gerlinde decided to study law and moved to Vienna after high school. Having come from Braunau, a small town in Upper Austria, she enjoyed her academic years in the city and it was in Vienna that she met her future husband, Marius Wernig. However, after her first year of studies, she was not happy to continue learning laws and regulations. She realized that, given her fascination with biology and her preference for literally taking things into her own hands, studying medicine would be much more in line with her aptitudes. Marius, who had already been enrolled at the medical university in Vienna for a year, was a bit bewildered at first by Gerlinde's change of plans, but the following years demonstrated the benefits of exchanging and sharing their medical knowledge in different but often overlapping fields.

In their relationship Gerlinde was the one who, from the onset, focused on receiving training in internal medicine, while Marius felt more attracted to doing laboratory research (click here to read the introduction of Austrian Scientist Dr. Marius Wernig, Associate Professor of Pathology at the Institute of Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine at Stanford University).


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