The invention relates to stathmin, stathmin, a nucleic acid encoding said stathmin or a cell expressing stathmin for use in the treatment of chronic wounds or disease- or medication-dependent impaired wound healing in a patient or for increasing or inducing the proliferation and/or migration of mesenchymal cells, of stem cells, for stimulating immune cells, preferably natural killer cells, for stimulating fibroblasts, for stimulating epithelial cells, preferably epithelial cells of the epidermis, or for stimulating angiogenesis.
