Students of the year 2003
- Khaled Alkarsah SYRIA
supervisor: Prof. Dr. Schulz, Virology,
project: Viral and genetic determinants of KSHV/HHV8 transmission from mothers to children
Final exam November 2006; Postdoc at Virology, MHH: from 2010 assistant professor Prince Mohammed Bin Fahd Center for Research, University of Dammam, Saudi Arabia; since 2017 Associate professor, Department of Microbiology, College of Medicine, Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, Saudi Arabia
- Tammy Bohn, nee Chang TAIWAN/GERMANY
supervisor: Prof. Dr. Tümmler, Pediatric Pneumology, OE 6710,
project: Pseudomonas aeruginosa - mammalian host cell interaction: Phagocyte-sensitizing genes of P. aeruginosa
Final exam November 2006; Grenoble, France, from 08/2009 London with Georg Bohn; now Cham, Switzerland
- Anuhar Chaturvedi INDIA
supervisor: PD Dr. Eder, Hematology, OE 6860,
project: The use of RNA interference in hematopoetic stem cells for functional genomics
Final exam November 2006; Postdoc at Lund Strategic Research Center for Stem Cell Biology and Cell Therapy, Lund, Sweden; from 2007 Postdoc at Dept. Hematology/Oncology University of Marburg, Germany; from 2009 Haematology and Oncology, MHH (Junior Group leader); from 2020 Specialist Nonclinical Oncology, BioNtech SE, Mainz
- Dorothea Prinz (nee Dijkstra) THE NETHERLANDS
supervisor: Prof. Dr. Werfel, Dermatology, OE 6600,
project: Interaction between anaphylatoxins C3a/C5a and T-lymphocytes/ dendritic cells with relevance for inflammatory skin diseases
Final exam June 2007; from 2008 Fraunhofer Institute ITEM Hannover, from 2011 Pediatric Pneumology, MHH (junior group leader); from 2017, course “project management for clinical research”; from May 2018 CRA (Clinical Research Associate) at DOCS Global, working for Janssen Cilag; living in Neuss
- Dorothea Gadzicki (Dr. med.) GERMANY
supervisor: Prof. Dr. Schlegelberger, Cell- and Molecular Pathology, OE 5120,
project: Identification of diagnostic and prognostic markers for hereditary breast cancer by micro-array and proteome analysis
Final exam June 2007; Junior Professor and Senior House Officer Cell- and Molecular Pathology, MHH; from 2012 MVZ Medivision Altona, Hamburg; now Endokrinologikum Hannover/Göttingen
- Jaba Gamrekelashvili (Med.) GEORGIA (former USSR)
supervisor: PD. Dr. Greten, Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Endocrinology, OE 6810,
project: Influence of tumor cell death on antitumor activity of the immune system
Final exam November 2007, Gastroenterology MHH (Twincore); from 2010 National Cancer Institute, NIH, Bethesda, USA; from 2013 Nephrology MHH
- Arnab Ghosh (Med.) INDIA
supervisor: Prof. Dr. Klein, Pediatric Hematology and Oncology, OE 6781,
project: Mechanisms and modulation of anti-leukemia immunity
Final exam June 2007; from 2007 Memorial Sloan Kettering Institute; from 2013 Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai; Hematology and Medical Oncology Fellow ,Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center,; now assistant attending physician, adult BMT service at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, USA
- Shipra Gupta INDIA
supervisor: Prof. Dr. Elsner, Prof. Forssmann (IPF)
project: Generation and characterization of chemokine-derived peptides leading to the inactivation of chemokine receptors on inflammatory cells
Final exam November 2006; Postdoc at Pharmacology, Experimental and Clinical Peptide Research, MHH; from 2007 Postdoc at Transplant Immunology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA ; from 2010 Benaroya Research Institute, Seattle, USA; from 2015 senior scientist SNBL USA, Seattle
- Eric Hesse (Dr. med.) GERMANY
supervisor: Prof. Dr. Krettek; Trauma Surgery, OE6230,
project: Gene-expression analysis of mesenchymal stem cells and their matrix synthesis
Final exam November 2007; Postdoc Harvard Medical School, USA; from 2012 W3 Heisenberg Professor, Trauma/Hand & Reconstructive Surgery, UKE, Hamburg; from May 2019 Director of the Institute of Molecular Muscle-skeletal research at LMU Munich
- Kumaravelu Jagavelu INDIA
supervisor: Prof. Dr. Schieffer/Dr. Bavendiek, Cardiology, OE 6880,
project: Involvement of the p38-MK2 signalling pathway in artherogenesis
Final exam November 2007; Postdoc in Mayo Clinic, GI Research unit, Rochester, USA; from 2011 faculty position, Central Drug Research Institute, Lucknow, India
- Harini Nivarthi INDIA
supervisor: Prof. Dr. Klein, Pediatric Hematology and Oncology, OE 6781,
project: Molecular analysis of transcription factors involved in dendritic cell development
Resigned from the program
- Andri Pramono INDONESIA
supervisor: Prof. Dr. Welte, Pediatric Hematology and Oncology,
project: In vitro hematopoietic differentiation of rhesus monkey embryonic stem cells
Final exam June 2008; Bonn; now lecturer Universitas Pembanguan Nasional "Veteran" Jakarta, Jakarta, Indonesia
- Rahul Purwar INDIA
supervisor: Prof. Dr. Werfel, Dermatology, OE 6600,
project: T cell - keratinocyte interaction in chronic inflammatory skin diseases
Final exam November 2006; Postdoc at Dermatology, MHH; from November 2007 Dermatology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA; from 2014 assistant Professor in Bioscience & Bioengineering, IIT Bombay, India
- Bishnudeo Roy INDIA
supervisor: Dr. Weiss, HZI, Braunschweig,
project: The role of B-1 cells in gut-associated immunity
Final exam June 2007; Centre of Immune Regulation, Rijkshospital Oslo, Norway; from 2018 Assistant Professor, Symbiosis International University, Pune, India
- Gustavo Salguero-Lopez (Med.) COLUMBIA
supervisor: PD Dr. Schieffer, Cardiology, OE 6880,
project: Impact of biomechanic stretch on progenitor cell difference: role of progenitor cells in vessel neovascularization
Final exam November 2007; Postdoc in Dept. of Hematology & Oncology, MHH; from 2014 Mannheim; from 2016 junior staff/research leader, Unidad de Terapia, Celular, Hemocentro Distrital, Secretaria Distrital de Salud Bogota, Columbia
- Tibor Veres (Med.) Hungaria
supervisor: Dr. A. Braun, Fraunhofer-Institute, Nicolai-Fuchs-Str. 1, 30625 Hannover,
project: Interaction between pulmonary dendritic cells and nerves during allergic inflammation
Final exam November 2008; from 2010 MediCity Research Laboratory, Turku; adjunct professor and research group leader, institute of Biomedicine, University of Turku, Finland
- Anastassiia Vertii UKRAINE
supervisor: Prof. Dr. Gaestel, Physiological Chemistry, OE 4310,
project: Search for biological functions of HSPs using knockout mice
Final exam November 2007; UMASS Doxsey Lab, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA; now research instructor, Molecular, Cell, and Cancer Biology, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Massachusetts, USA