In her doctoral thesis, Ladina Müller will research "Cilia in Models of Autosomal-Dominant Parkinson's Disease" and will be supervised by Prof. Philipp Kahle, head of the research group "Funtional Neurogenetics" at the HIH and by Dr. Nisha Mohd Rafiq from the Interfaculty Institute of Biochemistry (IFIB).

Malin Schulze will focus on the topic of "Digital motor endpoints of hereditary spastic spinal paralysis and spastic ataxia: Identification of more sensitive study endpoints for degenerative diseases of the pyramidal tract" and will be supported by Prof. Matthis Synofzik, senior physician and head of the Section for "Translational Genomics of Neurodegenerative Diseases" at the HIH and Dr. Dr. Andreas Traschütz, specialist and clinician scientist at the Hertie Center for Neurology.

Both were able to convince the reviewers and will now receive the Johannes Dichgans doctoral scholarship from the Hertie Institute from October 2024 to September 2025.

We wish both much success.

Picture: Ladina Müller and Malin Schulze

Copyright: Silke Dutz / HIH