Education and Academic Training

• 2020–2025 Doctoral studies (Dr. rer. nat.), Clinical Department of Neurology, Hannover Medical School
• 2018–2020 M. Sc. in Life Sciences, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz University Hannover
• 2014–2018 Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) in Life Sciences, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz University Hannover

Research Career

• Since 04/2025 Research Associate/PostDoc, Institute of Neuroanatomy and Cell Biology, Hannover Medical School
• 10/2020–03/2025 PhD Student, Clinical Department of Neurology
• 01/2019–06/2019 Research Associate (ERASMUS International Internship), Marine Biodiscovery Center (MBC), Aberdeen, Scotland
• Oct 2017–Sep 2020 Research Associate, Institute of Food Chemistry, Leibniz University Hannover

Awards and Honors

• 2017 Solvay Scholarship for outstanding achievements in the Faculty of Natural Sciences

Research Focus

1. Extracellular Vesicles and Synaptic Plasticity: Focus on the role of extracellular vesicles (particularly exosomes) as mediators of intercellular communications in the central nervous system
2. Establishment of Neurofilament Light Chain (NfL) as a biomarker for neuroaxonal damage in cell culture models

Online Presence

ORCID: 0009-0001-2006-9510

Publications

A genome-wide RNA interference screening reveals the protective effect of SNX5 knockdown in a Parkinson’s disease cell model. Höllerhage, M., Duan, L., Chua, O.W.H., Moebius, C., Bothe, S.H., Losse, K., Kotzur, R., Lau, K., Hopfner, F., Richter, F., Wahl-Schott, C., Bickle, M., and Höglinger, G.U. (2025a). Transl Neurodegener 14, 27. https://doi.org10.1186/s40035-025-00486-5

Inhibition of TGF-beta signaling protects against alpha-synuclein-induced toxicity. Höllerhage, M., Chua, O.W.H., Duan, L., Bothe, S., Evsyukov, V., Moebius, C., Bickle, M., and Höglinger, G. (2025b). https://doi.org10.21203/rs.3.rs-6867964/v1