Congratulations on this important stage in the lives of our 8 PhD students!

They successfully defended their theses on 03.06.2024 as part of the PhD program Regenerative Sciences. 

at the back:

Kelsey Lolatte from the Department of Nuclear Medicine "Molecular Imaging to Guide Repair after Ischemic Damage: Investigation of the Heart Brain Axis and Targeted Anti-Inflammatory Therapy"

Rajesh Vivekanandan from the AG Gruh “Contribution of iPSC-derived cardiovascular cell types to bioartificial cardiac tissue vascularization and functionality”

Shifaa Abdin from the AG Lachmann "Exploiting the immune modulatory properties of stem cell derived macrophages in therapeutic and pharmaceutical applications"

Zulaikha Malik from the Department of Cardiology and Angiology "Skeletal Muscle-Heart Interaction: Heart Failure and Iron Deficiency"

Yankai Xiao from the AG Könecke "Deciphering Antigen Specificity of Regulatory T Cell Clones in Patients after Allogeneic Stem Cell Transplantation"

in front:

Miriana Dardano from the AG Zweigerdt “Blood-Generating Heart-Forming Organoids (BG-HFOs) recapitulate co-development of the human hematopoietic system and the embryonic heart”

Laura von Schledorn from the AG Olmer “Development of an in vitro disease model for Primary Ciliary Dyskinesia (PCD) utilizing patient-specific human induced pluripotent stem cells”

Tamari Askurava from the AG Gruh „Influence of titin variants on myocardial function in a 3D disease model of Peripartum Cardiomyopathy using human induced pluripotent stem cells”

We wish you all the best for your future, both privately and for the next steps in your career.