Incoming Class of 2014

Student: Anca Amati
Country: RomaniaProject: TBA
PI/co-PI: Grau
Contact: Anca-Laura.Amati@chiru.med.uni-giessen.de
Sponsorship: Department of Surgery

Student: Eistine Boateng
Country: Ghana
Project: Role of Peroxisomes in Pulmonary Fibrosis
PI/co-PI: Baumgart-Vogt
Contact: eistine.boateng@anatomie.med.uni-giessen.de
Sponsorship: DAAD/Government of Ghana

Student: David Brunn
Country: Germany
Project: Role of the interferon regulatory factors in lung cancer progression and metastasis
PI/co-PI: Savai
Contact: David.Brunn@mpi-bn.mpg.de
Sponsorship: Max Planck Society

Student: Claudia Fernanda García Castro
Country: Perú
Project: The role of mitochondria in biological aging of the lung and development of COPD
PI/co-PI: Weissmann
Contact: clafe19_3@hotmail.com
Sponsorship: ECCPS

Student: Stephanie Dobersch
Country: Germany
Project: A new model for investigation of lung cancer initiation by transgenic, inducible and cell-type specific expression of the embryonic isoform of Gata6
PI/co-PI: Barreto
Contact: Stephanie.Dobersch@mpi-bn.mpg.de 
Sponsorship: Max Planck Society

Student: Vahid Kheirollahi
Country: Iran
PI/Co-PI: Bellusci
Project: Fgf10 in lung mesenchymal cell fate decision and disease
Contact: vkheirollahi@gmail.com
Funding: ECCPS

Student: Vitalii Kryvenko
Country: Ukraine
PI/Co-PI: Vadász
Project: Ubiquitination and targeted degradation of the Na,K-ATPase in acute lung injury
Contact: Vitalii.Kryvenko@innere.med.uni-giessen.de
Funding: DFG

Student: Argen Mamazhakypov
Country: Kyrgyzstan
PI/Co-PI: Schermuly
Project: TBA
Contact: argen_m_t@inbox.ru
Funding: ECCPS

Student: Agnieszka Pożarska
Country: Poland
PI/Co-PI: Morty
Project: Tgfbr3 as a regulator of smooth musucle cell behaviour
Contact: Agnieszka.Pozarska@mpi-bn.mpg.de
Funding: Max Planck Society

Student: José Alberto Rodríguez Castillo
Country: México
PI/Co-PI: Morty/Ahlbrecht
Project: Characterization of lung fibroblast subsets in lung regeneration
Contact: Alberto.Rodriguez-Castillo@mpi-bn.mpg.de
Funding: Max Planck Society

Student: Alireza Saraji
Country: Iran
PI/Co-PI: Weissmann
Project: Mitochondrial dysfunction as novel therapeutic target in pulmonary hypertension
Contact: alibioinfo@gmail.com
Funding: ECCPS

Student: David Emanuel Surate Solaligue
Country: Argentina
PI/Co-PI: Morty
Project: MicroRNA regulation of lung vascular development
Contact: David.Surate@mpi-bn.mpg.de
Funding: Rhön Klinikum

Student: Chanil Valasarajan
Country: India
PI/Co-PI: Pullamsetti
Project: TBA
Contact: Chanil.Valasarajan@mpi-bn.mpg.de
Funding: Max Planck Institute

Student: İpek Vartürk
Country: Turkey
PI/Co-PI: Weissmann
Project: Role of SPARC in pulmonary vascular remodelling underlying pulmonary hypertension
Contact: ipek.varturk@hotmail.com
Funding: ECCPS