Wound Healing
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- Biomedical processes in normal and aberrant skin wound healing, contraction and scarring
- Impact of Matrix Metalloproteinases
- in wound repair of various tissues (e.g. skin, intestine, peritoneum)
- for migration and cell-cell interaction
- for cellular contractility
| Period | Employment / Occupation |
| Since 2013 | Head of Wound Repair Unit, Centre for Biomolecular Interactions Bremen, University of Bremen, and Medical Cooperation Centre, Klinikum Bremen-Mitte, University Hospital |
| Since 2012 | Consultant, Department of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery, Klinikum Bremen-Mitte, Bremen |
| 2009 – 2011: | Principal Investigator ERC project and Scientist at the Experimental Dept. of Plastic Surgery, MHH, and Attending surgeon at Dept. of Plastic, Hand and Reconstructive Surgery, Hannover Medical School |
| 2004 – 2008: | Leading scientist, Dept. of Experimental Plastic Surgery, Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg, and Fellow at Dept. of Plastic, Aesthetic and Hand Surgery, University of Magdeburg, Germany |
| 2003 – 2003: | Fellow at Dept. of General Surgery, University Hospital, RWTH Aachen, Germany |
| 2001 – 2002: | Post-doc at Dept. of Surgery, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark |
| 1999 – 2002: | Clinical rotation for plastic surgery: Sweden and Denmark |
| 1999 – 2001: | PhD student, Medical Faculty, Lund University, Sweden, doctoral degree 2001 (PhD) |
| 1988 – 1995: | Medical studies at University of Ulm, Germany; doctoral degree 1995 (MD) |
2001 - 2011 | Various poster awards, Dublin, Ireland 2001; Hamburg, Germany 2002; Vienna, Austria, 2006; Essen, Germany |
2010 | Victor-von-Bruns Scientific Award: German Society of Wound Healing, Freiburg |
2010 | Science Award: German Society of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgeons, Dresden |
| 2002 | Young Investigator Award, Joint meeting of the European Tissue Repair Society and Wound Healing Society, Baltimore, USA |
- Board Member European Tissue Repair Society (ETRS, since 2015)
- German Society of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgeons (DGPRÄC, since 2001)
- German Society of Surgery (DGCH, since 2010)
- German Wound Healing Society (DGfW, since 2010)
- European Tissue Repair Society (ETRS, since 1999)
- German Breast Cancer Society (DGS, since 2008)
- European Plastic Surgery Research Council (EPSRC, since 2011)
- International Society for Burn Injuries (ISBI, since 2010)
- German Association for Scar Therapy (DBNT, since 2014)
- German Medical Women’s Association (DÄB, since 2015)
Skin wound physiology and pathophysiology, scarring, wound models, biomaterials, translational medicine
Since 2015: Member of Editorial Board of "Scientific reports", Nature group
Since 2014: PlosONE
2010 – 2011 European Journal of Surgical research
2011 – 2012 Archives of Dermatological Research
2015 | Invited spreaker: Ludwig Boltzmann Institute, Vienna, Austria |
| 2014 | Guest lectures Medical Faculty: University of Parana and Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil |
| 2013 | Invited speaker: Einzigartigkeit Mensch. Bundesinstitut für Risikobewertung, Charité, Berlin |
| 2012 | German Society for Senology, Stuttgart, Germany |
| 2012 | Keynote lecture: German Surgical Society, Berlin, Germany |
| 2012 | Annual Meeting: German Society of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgeons in Bremen, Germany (congress secretary) |
| 2010 | Annual Meeting: German Society of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgeons in Hannover, Germany (congress organization) |