Current position



I am currently working in the Management of Newcell International Hospital, Shanghai. I started this position in May 2016 and the position is for one year.

Former research



I was a Post Doc at Renji Hospital from 08/2013 to 05/2016, Clinical Stem Cell Research Center, Shanghai. My work was in the field of aortic aneurism and myocardial infarction, and focused on immune cells.
At January 16th, 2015, I represented Renji Hospital as outstanding Post Doc at 1st Post Doc Conference of School of Medicine, Jiao Tong University Shanghai.
Moreover, I supervised two Master students from Belgium during their stay taking care about development of their projects, introducing them to techniques, answering questions and revising their thesis. I was honored for this as their instructor.

Grants



I applied successfully for a grant from National Natural Science Foundation of China. Reference and Grant number is 8141101032 and 81450110091, respectively. The official page is here (chinese). I am stated at No. 37. Support was for 12 months (2014-2015) and 200000 RMB.

Personel research interests



My personel research interests are wide-ranging. Among others (and not sorted), it encompasses heart and vascular diseases, the exploration and possible eradiction of tumors/cancers, establishment of biomarkers, e.g. for T cell priming, immune responses, tissue engineering, neurological diseases, nanoparticles, and much more.

Furthermore, I am interested in the influence of epigenetics on gene expression, RNA(i) and its influence in cellular processes and gene expression et cetera.

More previous research



My PhD thesis was 'Characterization of the pathogenetic-relevant role of SF-1 in adrenocortical carcinoma'. You may read it here (abstract and pdf file). Furthermore, feel free to take a look at the Publications section.
My diploma thesis (M.Sc.) was 'Substrate specificity of histone-modifying enzymes' and supervised by Dr. Andreas Schwienhorst (Department of Molecular Genetics and Preparative Molecular Biology, Institute of Microbiology and Genetics, Georg August University Goettingen).

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