Inhaltspezifische Aktionen

Incoming Class of 2025

Further details about the 19 students enrolled in the Incoming Class of 2025 are available here.

 

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Full name: Sukanya Bhat
Country: India
Project: Investigating the mode of action of repair-supportive mesenchymal cells in airway
regeneration 
PI/co-PI: Elie El Agha
E-mail: sukanya.bhat@stud.uni-giessen.de
Sponsorship: DZL
Full name: Marieke Böcker
Country: Germany
Project: Decoding the obesity-lung cancer axis: A multi-omics approach to metabolomic and
epigenetic reprogramming
PI/co-PI: Rajkumar Savai
E-mail: marieke.boecker@mpi-bn.mpg.de
Sponsorship: Deutsche Krebshilfe / ILH
Full Name: Bhaskarjyaa Chatterjee
County: India
Project: Evaluating the therapeutic potential of recombinant BMP2 in pulmonary fibrosis
PI/co-PI: Elie El Agha
Email: bhaskarjyaa.chatterjee@stud.uni-giessen.de
Sponsorship: ILH
Full name: Ayushi Chauhan
Country: India
Project: Investigating the modulation of INF signaling by human influenza and human coronavirus
PI: Susanne Herold / Irina Kuznetsova
Email: chauhanayushi212001@gmail.com
Sponsorship: Coropan, LOEWE
Full name: Dana Cojocaru
Country: Republic of Moldova
Project: Investigation of mural and alveolar epithelial cell interactions during emphysema
development and alveolar repair in COPD
PI/co-PI:  Norbert Weissmann / Stefan Hadzic
E-mail: dana.cojocaru@uni-giessen.de
Sponsorship: JLU
Full name: Lois Fletcher-Wheeler
Country: United Kingdom
Project: Investigating the adipose tissue-lung axis in the context of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis
PI/co-PI: Mareike Lehmann
E-mail: fletcher@uni-marburg.de
Sponsorship:
Full name: Danielle Fomferra
Country: Germany
Project: Impact of oxidative/nitrosative stress modulation on Acta2+ cell-mediated remodeling and
regeneration in COPD
PI/co-PI: Stefan Hadzic
E-mail: danielle.fomferra@uni-giessen.de
Sponsorship: JLU
Full name: Gamze Çiğdem Gelincik
Country: Türkiye
Project title: Stem–immune interactions in the lung: A conversation promoting lung health and
contributing to tissue regeneration
PI/co-PI: Ana Pardo-Saganta
E-mail: gamze.c.gelincik@stud.uni-giessen.de
Sponsorship: ILH
Full name: Sana Hachem
Country: Lebanon
Project: Investigating the interplay between the lungs and the skeletal muscle system in COPD-
induced mice models and the role of exercise in managing the disease 
PI/co-PI:  Miguel A. Alejandre Alcázar
E-mail: sana.hachem@uni-giessen.de
Sponsorship: DZL
Full name: Fatemeh Kheirollahzadeh 
Country: Iran
Project: Regulation of endocytic processes in influenza virus-induced lung injury by hypercapnia
PI/co-PI:  Istvan Vadasz / Martin Diener
E-mail: kheirollahzadeh.f@gmail.com
Sponsorship: DZL
Full name:  Johanna Kohlhaas
Country: Germany
Project: Establishment of a tuberculosis granuloma model in human lung organoids as a tool to study
the role of macrophages in the progression from latent to active disease
PI/co-PI:  Susanne Herold
E-mail: johanna.kohlhaas@uni-giessen.de
Sponsorship: DZL funding 4.0
Full name: Chudamani Nuguri
Country: India
Project: Investigating the role of epithelial FGFr2b deletion in the mouse model of emphysema and
pulmonary hypertension
PI/co-PI: Norbert Weissmann / Stefan Hadzic
E-mail: chudamani.nuguri@ab.uni-giessen.de
Sponsorship: ECCPS, Justus Liebig University, Giessen
Full name: Maduwuike Okpara
Country: Germany
Project: Sepsis-induced macrophage–endothelial interaction: Bacterial extracellular vesicles as
modulators of RNase1
PI/co-PI: Katrin Laakmann / Bernd Schmeck
E-mail: okpara@staff.uni-marburg.de
Sponsorship: UKGM
Full name: Maike Elisabeth Schneider
Country: Germany
Project: Role of Siah2 during adaptation of the heart to increased afterload and the development of
right heart failure
PI/co-PI: Susanne Rohrbach / Christoph Rummel
E-mail: maike.e.schneider@uni-giessen.de
Sponsorship: ---
Full name: Zixiong Shen
Country:China
Project: The role of CEACAM6 in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
PI/co-PI: Stefan Hadzic
E-mail: zixiong.shen@uni-giessen.de
Sponsorship: Mianyang Central Hospital
Full name: Muhammad Faizan Tariq
Country: Pakistan
Project: Phenotyping of human iPSC-derived lung organoids at single cell resolution and in spatial
context
PI/co-PI:  Susanne Herold / Benjamin Lamp
E-mail: muhammad.f.tariq@uni-giessen.de
Sponsorship: ILH
Full Name: Sardharganesh Hukumathi Venkata
Country: India
Project: The role of Cox4i2 in normal and aberrant lung development
PI/co-PI: Norbert Weissmann / Natascha Sommer
E-mail: sardharganesh.hukumathi.venkata@ab.uni-giessen.de
Sponsorship:
Full Name: Weiwei Yang
Country: China
Project: Elucidating the role of Fgf10+ mesenchymal cells in PNX-induced alveolar regeneration
PI/co-PI: Saverio Bellusci
E-mail: dr.weiweiyang@gmail.com
Sponsorship: China scholarship council
Full name: Jan Luca Zimmermann
Country: Germany
Project: Role of Proenkephalin during adaptation of the heart to increased afterload and the
development of right heart failure
PI/co-PI: Susanne Rohrbach / Reinhard Dammann
E-mail: jan.l.zimmermann@uni-giessen.de
Sponsorship: DFG / SFB1213