Biography
After completing my apprenticeship as a medical assistant in the laboratory at the University hospital in Münster, Germany, I went on to my undergraduate studies at the Technical University Berlin. For my final project I investigated interaction partners of the heart potassium channels KCNE5 and KCNE2. I graduated with a BSc. in Biotechnology and continued further with a MSc. at the TU Berlin. During my masters I had the opportunity to deepen my knowledge working as a student assistant at the Research Center ImmunoScience, Charité Berlin. Currently I am part of a project in this group characterising malarial parasite (P. falciparum) transport proteins in as part of my Master Thesis. I am using a heterologous expression system; expressing Plasmodium proteins in yeast.
Key publications
Proteasome inhibitor bortezomib enhances the effect of standard chemotherapy in small cell lung cancer.Taromi S, Lewens F, Arsenic R, Sedding D, Sänger J, Kunze A, Möbs M, Benecke J, Freitag H, Christen F, Kaemmerer D, Lupp A, Heilmann M, Lammert H, Schneider CP, Richter K, Hummel M, Siegmund B, Burger M, Briest F, Grabowski P. Oncotarget. 2017 Sep 23;8(57):97061-97078. doi: 10.18632/oncotarget.21221. eCollection 2017 Nov 14.PMID: 29228593 Free PMC Article
Mechanisms of targeting the MDM2-p53-FOXM1 axis in well-differentiated intestinal neuroendocrine tumors.Briest F, Grass I, Sedding D, Möbs M, Christen F, Benecke J, Fuchs K, Kaemmerer D, Mende S, Sänger J, Kunze A, Geisler C, Freitag H, Lewens F, Worpenberg L, Iwaszkiewicz S, Siegmund B, Walther W, Hummel M, Grabowski P. Neuroendocrinology. 2017 Sep 14. doi: 10.1159/000481506. [Epub ahead of print] PMID: 28910819