Dr. Wessely is an Associate Staff in the Department of Cardiovascular & Metabolic Sciences in the Lerner Research Institute. Dr. Wessely received his Magister in Molecular Genetics in 1992 and his Ph.D. in Natural Sciences in 1997 from the University of Vienna in Austria. He then continued his research education as a postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of E. M. De Robertis at UCLA in Los Angeles, CA. In November 2003 he joined the Departments of Cell Biology & Anatomy and Genetics at LSUHSC for his first faculty position. In 2011 he joined the Cleveland Clinic as an Associate Staff, continuing his research on kidney development and disease.