Graduate Students

About the graduate students:

We consider neither the scientific nor the translational potential towards ‘resolution of inflammation’ to be sufficiently exploited. Therefore, young researchers need to be specifically educated in this field. This will enable them to explore mediators and principles of resolution of inflammation in academia, the clinics, and pharmaceutical industry. To this end, graduates in biology, biochemistry, immunology, pharmacology, pharmacy, and molecular medicine have been recruited to AVE through a rigid evaluation process. Together with associated PhD candidates and medical students, they will tackle the questions raised within the three scientific clusters of AVE.

Currently we are educating the third and last cohort in our 3x 3 years programme.

To have a look on our Alumni click here.

Cluster 1:

Project 1

Wenqing Xu

Wenqing Xu
Master of Molecular Medicine

PhD-Thesis: IL-38 receptors in the context of inflammation

Thesis Committee: Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Andreas Weigert

Contact: Institute of Biochemistry 1
Goethe-University Frankfurt
Email address:

www.pathobiochemie1.de

Project 3

Ann-Chi Yu

Ann-Chi Yu
Master of Science, Biomedicine

PhD-Thesis: Regulation von Resolution und Regeneration bei Paracetamol- induziertem Leberschaden

Thesis Committee: Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Heiko Mühl

Contact: Institute of General Pharmacology and Toxicology
Goethe-University Frankfurt
Email address:

Associate

Xin You

Xin You
Physician,
medical scientist

PhD-Thesis: PhD-Thesis: The role of interleukin 38 (IL-38) in inflammatory colon carcinogenesis

Thesis Committee: Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Andreas Weigert

Co-Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Heiko Mühl

Contact: Institute of Biochemistry 1
Goethe-University Frankfurt
Email address:

www.pathobiochemie1.de

Associate

Ioanna Tsoukala

Ioanna Tsoukala
Master of Science,
Technical Biology

PhD-Thesis: Exploring the mechanisms of immune-supression in leukemia

Thesis Committee: Supervisor: Dr. Hind Medyouf

Co-Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Andreas Weigert

Contact: Georg-Speyer-Haus
Email address:

www.georg-speyer-haus.de

Associate

Anna Schwantes

Anna Schwantes
Pharmacist

PhD-Thesis: Macrophages in sensing and executing Ferroptosis

Thesis Committee: Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Bernhard Brüne

Co-Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Andreas Weigert

Contact: Institute of Biochemistry 1
Goethe-University Frankfurt
Email address:

www.pathobiochemie1.de

Associate

Michelle Seifert

Michelle Seifert
Master of Science,
Biomolecular Engineering

PhD-Thesis: Development of molecular strategies for the lysosomal degradation of target proteins

Thesis Committee: Supervisor: Dr. Schara Safarian

Co-Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Heiko Mühl Contact

Contact: Fraunhofer Institut für Translationale Medizin und Pharmakologie (ITMP)
Goethe-University Frankfurt
Email address:

https://www.itmp.fraunhofer.de/

Associate

Blerina Aliraj

Blerina Aliraj
Master in Medical and Pharmaceutical Biotechnology

PhD-Thesis: Multispectral imaging of immune cell interactions in the context of inflammation

Thesis Committee: Supervisor: Prof.Dr. Andreas Weigert

Contact: Institute of Biochemistry 1
Goethe-University Frankfurt
Email address:

www.pathobiochemie1.de

Associate

Gunjan Arya

Gunjan Arya
Master of Technology, Biotechnology

PhD-Thesis: The role of IL 38 in cardiovascular diseases

Thesis Committee: Supervisor: Prof.Dr. Andreas Weigert

Co-Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Ralf Brandes
Prof. Dr. Ellen Niederberger

Contact: Institute of Biochemistry 1
Goethe-University Frankfurt
Email address:
tba
www.pathobiochemie1.de

Cluster 2:

Project 4

Ira Lamminger

Ira Lamminger
Pharmacist

PhD-Thesis: Fatty acid provision upstream of cPLA2a during the resolution of inflammation in leukocytes

Thesis Committee: Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Dieter Steinhilber
Dr. Astrid Kahnt

Contact: Institute of Pharmaceutical Chemistry
Goethe-University Frankfurt
Email address:

www.uni-franfurt.de/53483647/Steinhilber

Project 5

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Fatıma Hacer Kurtoğlu Babayev
Master of Science, Cellular and Molecular Medicine

PhD-Thesis: The role of secreted modular calcium binding protein (SMOC) 1 in atherosclerosis and myocardial infarction (MI)

Thesis Committee: Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Ingrid Fleming

Contact: Institute of Vascular Signalling
Goethe-University Frankfurt
Email address:
tba
www.vrc.uni-frankfurt.de

Project 6

Irina Bode

Irina Bode
Master of Science, Biology

PhD-Thesis: Translational changes in glioblastoma in Tumor Treating Fields

Thesis Committee: Supervisor: PD Dr. Tobias Schmid

Contact: Institute of Biochemistry 1
Goethe-University Frankfurt
Email address:

www.pathobiochemie1.de

Project 7

Nicole Zander

Nicole Zander
Master of Science

PhD-Thesis: tba

Thesis Committee: Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Klaus Scholich

Contact: Institute of Clinical Pharmacology
Goethe-University Frankfurt
Email address:

www.kgu.de/zpharm/klin

Project 8

Denis Benning

Denis Benning
Master of Science

PhD-Thesis: The Impact of IKKε in skin diseases

Thesis Committee: Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Ellen Niederberger

Contact: Institute of Clinical Pharmacology
Goethe-University Frankfurt
Email address:
tba
www.kgu.de/zpharm/klin

Project 12

Matthias Denkewitz

Matthias Denkewitz
Master of Medical Science, Infection Biology

PhD-Thesis: SARS-CoV-2 infection in Monocytes/Macrophages: pattern of inflammation and it's resolution

Thesis Committee: Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Denisa Bojkova

Contact: Institute of Medicinal Virology
University Hospital Frankfurt
Email address:
tba
www.kgu.de/

Associate

Marcel Müller

Marcel Müller
Pharmacist

PhD-Thesis: Transcellular biosynthesis of pro-resolving lipid mediators (SPM) in co-incubations of macrophages with dying neutrophils

Thesis Committee: Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Dieter Steinhilber
Dr. Astrid Kahnt

Co-Supervisor: tba

Contact: Institute of Pharmaceutical Chemistry
Goethe-University Frankfurt
Email address:

www.uni-franfurt.de/53483647/Steinhilber

Associate

Vanesa Guerrero Ruiz

Vanesa Guerrero Ruiz
Master of Science, Immunology

PhD-Thesis: Macrophage lipid metabolism in the tumour microenvironment

Thesis Committee: Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Andreas Weigert

Co-Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Bernhard Brüne

Contact: Institute of Biochemistry 1
Goethe-University Frankfurt
Email address:

www.pathobiochemie1.de

Associate

Sofie Meyer

Sofie Meyer
Master of Science,
Molecular Medicine

PhD-Thesis: IFN signalling in the hypoxic tumor microenviroment

Thesis Committee: Supervisor: PD Dr. Tobias Schmid

Co-Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Andreas Weigert

Contact: Institute of Biochemistry 1
Goethe-University Frankfurt
Email address:

www.pathobiochemie1.de

Associate

Michelle Haß

Michelle Haß Pharmacist

PhD-Thesis: The role of IKKε in T-cell-regulation in melanoma

Thesis Committee: Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Ellen Niedernberger

Co-Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Andreas Weigert
Prof. Dr. Heiko Mühl

Contact: Institute of Clinical Pharmacology
Goethe-University Frankfurt
Email address:

www.kgu.de/zpharm/klin

Associate MD

Milou Heffels

Milou Heffels
Medical Student

MD-Thesis: ALOX15B in the glioblastoma microenvironment

Thesis Committee: Supervisor: PD Dr. Tobias Schmid

Contact: Institute of Biochemistry 1
Goethe-University Frankfurt
www.pathobiochemie1.de

Associate MD

Yuwei Du

Yuwei Du
Medical Student

MD-Thesis: Pro-resolving mediators in mast cells

Thesis Committee: Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Klaus Scholich

Contact: Institute of Clinical Pharmacology
Goethe-University Frankfurt
https://www.kgu.de/zpharm/klin/

Cluster 3:

Project 9

Ludmila Ciomirtan

Ludmila Ciomirtan
Pharmacist

PhD-Thesis: The role of DYRK1B in leukocytes – immunological effects and regulatory mechanisms

Thesis Committee: Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Robert Fürst

Contact: Institute of Pharmaceutical Biology
Goethe-University Frankfurt
Email address:

www.uni-frankfurt.de

Project 10

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Alicia Schneider
Master of Science

PhD-Thesis: tba

Thesis Committee: Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Ralf Brandes

Contact: Institute of Cardiovascular Physiology
Goethe-University Frankfurt
Email address:

www.vrc.uni-frankfurt.de

Project 11

Ahmed Mohammed

Ahmed Mohammed
Master of Science, Molecular Biology

PhD-Thesis: Metabolic adaptation of fibroblasts in regeneration and tumour therapy

Thesis Committee: Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Florian Greten

Co-Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Amparo Acker Palmer

Contact: Georg-Speyer-Haus
Email address:

www.georg-speyer-haus.de