Here you will find an overview of our female director and research group leaders:
Prof. Dr. Dr. Ghazaleh Tabatabai is head of the Department Neurology and interdisciplinary Neuro-Oncology at the HIH and Executive Medical Director at the Hertie Center for Neurology. The scientific focus of the department includes the entire spectrum of neuro-oncological disease, including primary and metastatic tumors in the nervous system as well as neurological side effects of tumor therapies.
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Prof. Dr. Kathrin Brockmann is a senior physician at the University Neurology Clinic, head of the Parkinson's outpatient clinic and the "Clinical Parkinson Research" research group in the Department for Neurodegenerative diseases at the HIH. Her focus of research aims patient stratification according to imaging patterns, genetic architecture and, importantly, the underlying pathologic processes, possibly reflected by distinct profiles in patient biomaterials such as blood and cerebrospinal fluid.
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Dr. Julia Fitzgerald is head of the "Mitochondrial Biology of Parkinson's Disease" research group in the Department for Neurodegenerative diseases. Her group aims to understand the molecular mechanisms underlying neurodegeneration using genetic forms of the disease as an entry point and bridge their findings using patient-derived biofluids to model sporadic cases and predict the diagnosis and/or progression of the disease.
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Dr. Ulrike Hedrich-Klimosch is head of the junior research group "Experimental Neurophysiology of Channelopathies" in the Department of Neurology and Epileptology. Her group uses transgenic mouse models to investigate the molecular mechanisms of disease-associated variants in genes encoding neuronal ion channels.
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Dr. Deborah Kronenberg-Versteeg is head of the "Glial Cell Biology" research group in the Department of Cellular Neurology. Her lab utilizes brain slice cultures (mouse and human), stem cell-derived glia, neurons and organoids to investigate the dynamics and mechanisms of glial cell biology in the context of various proteopathies and aging.
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Prof. Dr. Esther Kühn is head of the independent research group “Translational imaging of cortical microstructure”. Her group uses translational MR imaging to understand how cortical microstructure links to human brain function in health and disease
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Prof. Dr. Mirjam Renovanz is head of the junior research group “Health care research in Neuro-Oncology” in the Department Neurology and interdisciplinary Neuro-Oncology. Her group focuses on the health-related quality of life, psychosocial burden and unmet needs in neuro-oncological patients
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Prof. Dr. Rebecca Schüle is head of the affiliated research group “Genomic of rare movement disorders” in the Department for Neurodegenerative diseases at the HIH and W3 professor at Heidelberg University Hospital. Her group spezializes in rare diseases - by estimate, about 6-8% of citizens of the European Union are affected by at least one of the 6,000 known rare diseases.
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Prof. Dr. Lisa Sevenich is head of the research group “Experimental Neuroonco-Immunology” in the Department Neurology and interdisciplinary Neuro-Oncology. Research in her lab is focused on tumor immunology in brain cancer in particular brain metastasis.
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Dr. Isabell Wochner is head of the independent junior research group “Neuromechanical Modeling and Sensor Fusion for Assistive Robotics”. She is investigating how everyday movements can be predicted in real time using wearable sensor data and neuromechanical computer models.
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