Eva-Lena Stange successfully defended her PhD The success story of recent doctoral defenses continues: In April, Eva-Lena Stange has successfully defended her dissertation entitled "The Neonatal Liver as a Tolerogenic T Cell Hub: Mechanisms and Long-term Effects ”. Her studies could demonstrate that the neonatal [...]

Alina Viehof-Beckmann successfully defended her PhD Alina Viehof-Beckmann, a doctoral student at the Institute of Medical Microbiology, has successfully defended her PhD thesis titled "Influence of Intestinal Coriobacteriia on Host Metabolism". The examination took place in beginning of December 2025. Supervised by Thomas Clavel, Alina’s [...]

Mona Peltzer successfully defended her PhD The end of the year is heralded by the successful defence of Mona Peltzer's doctoral thesis. Mona was a PhD student in the Department of Internal Medicine III and in her thesis she investigated the role of pyroptosis and [...]

Giulia Bagarolo successfully defended her PhD Congratulations to Giulia Bagarolo, who successfully defended her thesis in October 2025! Giulia was a PhD student of project A04 at the Institute for Molecular Cardiovascular Research (IMCAR) and she identified novel peptidic mediators that are involved in gut-liver [...]

Anika Beckers successfully defended her PhD Anika Beckers, PhD student in the Department of Internal Medicine III (project B04, supervised by Marie Berres), successfully defended her thesis. Anika investigated the role of dendritic cells as cellular targets of gut-liver communication in chronic liver disease and [...]

Sraddha Bharadwaj successfully defended her PhD Sraddha Bharadwaj successfully defended her PhD thesis end of September 2025. Sraddha was a PhD student in the Department of Molecular Medicine in the working group of Ana Izcue, project B08. In her thesis she investigated the role of [...]

Ines Volkert successfully defended her PhD 2024 ended with another good news for the CRC 1382 graduate school, since Ines Volkert, PhD student in the Department of Internal Medicine III, successfully defended her thesis just before Christmas. Ines dissected the role of JNK signaling in [...]

Ümran Ay successfully defended her PhD The series of successfully completed doctorates within the CRC 1382 continues. Beginning of January 2025 Ümran Ay, PhD student in the Department of General, Visceral, and Transplantation Surgery (CRC 1382 project A07, supervised by Frank Schaap and Steven Olde [...]

Anna Verwaayen successfully defended her PhD Anna Verwaayen successfully defended her PhD thesis beginning of December 2024. Anna was a PhD student in the Department of Internal Medicine III in the working group of Christian Liedtke, project A02. In her thesis she investigated tissue regeneration [...]

Sarah Schraven successfully defended her PhD The CRC 1382 graduate school started the new year with great news. Sarah Schraven, PhD student in the lab of Fabian Kießling (project Q01), successfully defended her PhD thesis in the field of experimental molecular imaging on 7th of [...]