Beatrice Schmidt, MSc

• Establishment of in vitro models (human induced pluripotent stem cells) to study cardiac diseases, especially dilated cardiomyopathy
• Understanding principle molecular mechanisms leading to disease
• Disease modeling by using CRISPR/Cas9 knock-out stem cell models

2015-2021

Doctoral thesis

2013-2015

Master of Science, Biotechnology, Wageningen University, the Netherlands
Thesis: “Transgenic overexpression of translation initiation factor eIF4E to prolong insect cell viability after baculovirus infection”, Department of Virology, Wageningen University, supervised by Prof. Dr. M. van Oers

2008-2012

Bachelor of Science, Biotechnology, University of Applied Science van Hall Larenstein, Leeuwarden, the Netherlands
Thesis: “mRNA markers to identify human body fluids in forensic cases –Specificity of skin and saliva mRNA markers”, Institute of Legal Medicine Cologne, supervised by Prof. Dr. P. Schneider

• German Stem Cell Network (GSCN)

1. Trillhaase A, Schmidt B, Märtens M, Haferkamp U, Erdmann J, Aherrahrou Z. The CAD risk locus 9p21 increases the risk of vascular calcification in an iPSC-derived VSMC model. Stem Cell Res Ther. 2021 Mar 6;12(1):166. doi: 10.1186/s13287-021-02229-5.