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

They successfully defended their theses on 06.06.2025 as part of the PhD program Regenerative Sciences. 

Maday Fernandez-Mayola from the Department of Nuclear Medicine "Imaging the dynamics of fibroblast activation in relation to inflammation and ventricle remodeling after myocardial infarction and the value of FAPI-PET for assessing response to therapy"

Xiaowei Zhong from AG Sharma “Identification of novel regulators of metabolic dysfunction-associated steatohepatitis”

Vanessa Hamann from AG Ott "Development and evaluation of RNA-mediated base editing for the therapeutic correction of the C282Y variant causing hereditary hemochromatosis"

Maja Strunk from the Department of Nuclear Medicine "Multimodality Molecular Imaging of Heart-Kidney Axis in Cardiovascular Disease: Evaluating Hypertension-Induced Heart Failure and Impact on Kidney"

Jia Li Ye from IMTTS "Modulating telomerase activity for the treatment of aging-associated disease"

Sára Szádocka from AG Gruh (LEBAO) “Human induced pluripotent stem cell-based 3D engineered tissue models of cardiac fibrosis”

Pimpan Sujariyakul from AG Ott “Programmable RNA nuclease mediated destruction of SARS-CoV-2 RNA to prevent replication and spread (“PRiMeD COVID”)”

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