Beatrice Schmidt, MSc
- PhD candidate
Research Focus
- 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
Scientific Training
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
memberships
- German Stem Cell Network (GSCN)
publications
- 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.