Lab members

PD Dr.rer.nat. Harald Schulze - Principle Investigator

  • Graduated from the University of Hannover and Medical School Hannover as a Diplom biochemist.
  • PhD thesis upon signal transduction pathways in blood platelets and congenital thrombocytopenia in Dr. Karl Welte's lab [pdf].
  • 1999-2000 Postdoctoral fellow in Karl Welte's lab working on congenital neutropenia and acute myeloid leukemia.
  • Postdoctoral research fellow at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School (Boston, USA) in the lab of Prof. Ramesh Shivdasani, working on megakaryocyte biology and platelet biogenesis.
  • Since 2005 junior investigator at the Charité (Dept. of Pediatrics, Prof. Dr. Gaedicke), Laboratory of Pediatric Molecular Biology (Head: Prof. Dr. Hagemeier).
  • 2008 Habilitation for "Molecular Medicine".
  • Since 2010 Dept. of Transfusion Medicine - Tissue Typing

Dr.med. Gabriele Strauß, MD - Pediatric Hematologist/Oncologist

  • Dr. Strauß is a senior pediatrician at the José-Carreras-Tagesklinik at the Otto-Heubner Centrum and treats children with hematological disorders. Her focus are congenital thrombocytopenia (lack of blood platelets) and red blood cell disorders / bone marrow transplants. Parents are asked to directly contact her for appointments.
  • gabriele.strauss@charite.de

Dipl.-Biol. Janine Fiedler - PhD Student

  • PhD student working on thrombocytopenia in TAR Syndrine.
  • Supported by a grant of the Sanitätsrat E A Huebner und Gemahl-Stiftung

Dipl.-Biol. Imke Meyer - PhD Student

  • PhD student, works on megakaryocyte maturation and platelet biogenesis

Dipl.-Biol. Heike Meyer

  • Works as a technician in the lab

Silke Schwiebert - Technical Assistence

  • Silke Schwiebert works as a technical assistence in the lab.

Cora Vollert, MD

  • is working on automated blood counters and ITP

Katja Henning - MD student

  • is working on flow cytometric analysis of platelets

Alumni

Dipl.-Ingenieur Stefan Kunert

  • Diploma thesis about characterization of the RanBP10-null mouse
  • Thesis was awarded a prize by the DECHEMA society for the best diploma thesis in technical chemistry on engineering schools
  • Master thesis on thrombus formation in RanBP10-null mice
  • Since 2010 PhD student at the Max Delbruck Center Berlin

Dr. Martin Wannack, MD

  • was working on thrombopoietin signal transduction in TAR syndrome