Experience

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  Boehringer ingelheim

  Mar 2015 - Aug 2015

  Internship

  Target validation techniques: establishment of different assays (e.g. Sandwich- / Direct ELISAs), optimization of virus production and purification techniques (AAV), qPCR for virus quantification

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  Ulm university

  Nov 2015 - Sept 2016

  Masters student

  Focus on sexual HIV-1 transmission and identification of factors restricting the transmission of X4-HIV-1. I also worked on ZIKV during the outbreak in Brazil, helped to bring the virus to our lab and established an In-Cell-ELISA for virus detection in cell culture.

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  Ulm university

  Dec 2016 - Oct 2021

  Phd student

  Between 2016 and 2021, I was a member of the International Ph.D. program in Molecular Medicine and worked in the Institute of Molecular Virology at Ulm University. My research focused on the interaction of antagonists and agonists with CXCR4 and their influence during sexual transmission of HIV-1. Also, I focused on the development of CXCR4-peptide-antagonists as therapeutic treatment for inflammatory diseases and cancer.

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  Universitätsklinikum ulm (university hospital ulm)

  Nov 2021 - now

  Junior group leader