Monika Arnold – Monika is a coordinator of the cardioncology clinic. In her role as a study nurse, she oversees the ongoing clinical trials, managing tasks such as data collection, record-keeping, and study administration, among others. She has a strong expertise in clinical study management.

Jannek Brauer – Jannek is a clinician scientist focusing on preclinical genetic models to study immune checkpoints in cardiac cells and their involvement on aberrant immune responses. He is further interested in studying radiation-dependent cardiac side effects in preclinical models.

Benay Eksi – Benay is a PhD-student with an interest in cancer- and cancer therapies-dependent epigenetic alterations and how to protect the heart from toxic events. Benay studies the role of epigenetic modifiers and their translational potential.

Lukas Entenmann – Lukas works as a clinician scientist at the department and has an interest in big data analysis. He further develops prospective observational trial in cardio-oncological imaging and multiomics approaches in cardio-oncological patients.

Daniel Finke – Daniel is a clinician scientist with a background in basic research. He is focused on epigenetic alterations and transcriptional regulation in cardiomyocytes. His current projects concentrate on epigenetic regulation of metabolic signaling, control of histone deacetylase – signaling and anthracycline toxicity. In clinical research, he is interested in identification of factors that predict future cardiac events in oncological patients.

Vincent Fischer – Vincent is a medical student talented in molecular cloning and cell culture. His project investigates the role of cardiac metabolic signaling in regulating cancer progression.

Markus Heckmann – Markus ist a clinician scientist who is excellent in data analysis and cardiovascular phenotyping of animals. His current projects investigate cardiac metabolic signaling in cancer and how we can image pathological metabolism/adverse remodeling in patients. He is further interested in the molecular basis of Immune-Checkpoint-Inhibitor associated myocarditis.

Lukas Jankowski – Lukas is a medical studient with an expertise in transcriptional control via nuclear receptors. He identified a group of genes regulated by nr4a1 and currently investigates the implications for the cardiac metabolism.

Jan-Philipp Lange – Jan is a medical student, investigating the role of cardiac co-morbidities in patients planned for allogenic stem-cell therapy.

Lorenz Lehmann – Lorenz is a clinician scientist with a background in epigenetics, cardiac metabolism and clinical cardio-oncology. His interests are cardiac co-morbidities. He is heading the cardio-oncology group and is interested to answer clinical questions by using preclinical models.

Ines Ludwig – Ines is organising the outpatient clinic for cardio-oncological patients. As a senior study nurse, she supervises the current clinical studies (data acquision, logs, study administration a.o.). Whenever we plan a clinical study, we ask Ines. She is most experienced in clinical study management.

Jan Münster – Jan is a medical student who investigates the interaction between radiation and arrhythmia in patients. He has a strong expertise in big-data analysis.

Szanett Papdi – Szanett is a medical student with a strong interest in understanding the molecular basis of MCL-1 inhibitor associated cardiotoxicity. She is an expert in caspase-signaling and cardiomyocyte apoptosis.

Florian Roll – Florian is a medical student with an interest in transcriptional regulation of metabolic genes. His current project investigates compounds for the regulation of cardiac glucose-metabolism. He is further interested in cardiac alterations by ovarial cancer in preclinical models.

Sebastian Romann – Sebastian is resident in cardiology with a background in analysing large data sets. He is trained in bioinformatics and is interested in pattern identification for the risk stratification of oncological patients. His projects are focused on biomarker in cardio-oncology, and neuro-endocrine tumors. 

Viktoria Sanders – Viktoria is a medical student with an expertise in primary cell culture. She is developing an in vitro model for immune checkpoint inhibitor-associated myocarditis and how to identify cardiomyocyte-specific downstream targets.

Jennifer Schahn – Jennifer is the organization hub of the preclinical team. As a trained technician, her expertise includes all standard procedures in molecular biology. Jennifer has a strong interest in novel applications for the CRISPR-Cas9 system and establishes Cas9-based methods for screens.

Daniel Scheidet – Daniel is a medical student investigating the predictive value of clinical parameters and cardiac biomarkers for the occurrence of a cardiac side effect of oncological therapies.

Frederike Schmitt – Frederike is a medical student, investigating the prospective value of FAPI-PET CT in oncological patients. He is currently recruiting patients into a prospective clinical trial.

Jessica Schug – Jessica is a medical student investigating the role of acute coronary syndrome in cancer patients. She is interested in understanding the association between interventions and outcome in that specific patient cohort.

Christian Stengele – Christian is a medical student investigating the association of cardiac biomarkers and coronary artery disease in cardio-oncology patients in prospectively collected data.

Vighnesh Sunder – Vighnesh is a PhD-student with a background in epigenetic regulation and highly interested in understanding epigenetic memory! He will investigate the upstream-regulation of epigenetic memory of certain genomic regions.

Fynn Thomsen – Finn is a medical student with a strong interest in cardiac metabolism. Currently, he is focused on nuclear receptors and how the are regulated/how the regulate glucose metabolism. He is an expert in Co-IP.

Belal Tothakel – Belal is a medical student with an expertise in nuclear imaging. His interest is imaging of cardio-metabolic changes in preclinical and clinical studies. He further investigates the interaction of cancer and cardiac metabolism in the human heart.

Mohsen Valadan – Mohsen is our postdoc, who is working on phenotyping of preclinical models of heart failure. He is interested in manipulation cardiac metabolic pathways.

Susanna Wilhelm – Susanna is a medical student with an expertise in big data managment. Her current project is focused on cardio-oncological questions in large patient cohorts at our clinic.

Alumni

Natalie Klinger

Finn Reinhardt

Frederic Stein

Theresa Caspari

Leonard Schanze