BSRT Graduate School

Winners of the PhD Student Award in Regenerative Medicine

The Berlin-Brandenburg School for Regenerative Therapies (BSRT) offered young talented scientists who are doing their PhD in the field of Regenerative Medicine in Berlin and Brandenburg a PhD student award from 2008 until 2020.

Winners in 2020

Publication Award First Place

  Tino Vollmer
Institute for Medical Immunology, Charité
Vollmer T, Schlickeiser S, Amini L, Schulenberg S, Wendering DJ, Banday V, Jurisch A, Noster N, Kunkel D, Brindle NB, Savidis I, Akyüz L, Hecht J, Stervbo U, Roch T, Babel N, Reinke P, Winqvist O, Sherif O, VolkH-D, Schmueck-Henneresse M. The Intra-tumoral CXCR3 Chemokine System Is Predictive of Chemotherapy Response in Human Bladder Cancer. Science Tralnslational Medicine 2021 Jan 13;13(576) [Pubmed].

Publication Award Second Place

  Adriano Bolondi
Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics
Veenvliet JV*, Adriano Bolondi*, Kretzmer H, Haut L, Scholze-Wittler M, Schifferl D, Koch F, Guignard L, Sampath Kumar A, Pustet M, Heimann S, Buschow R, Wittler L, Timmermann B, Meissner A, Herrmann BG *these authors contributed equally . Mouse embryonic stem cells self-organize into trunk-like structures with neural tube and somites. * authors contributed equally. 2020 Dec 11;370(6522):eaba4937. doi: 10.1126/science.aba4937 [Pubmed]

Publication Award Third Place

  Natalie Weber
Institute for Molecular- and Cell Physiology, Hannover Medical School.
Weber N*, Kowalski K*, Holler T, Radocaj A, Fischer M, Thiemann S, de la Roche J, Schwanke K, Piep B, Peschel N, Krumm U, Lingk A, Wendland M, Greten S, Schmitto JD, Ismail I, Warnecke G, Zywietz U, Chichkov B, Meißner J, Haverich A, Martin U, Brenner B, Zweigerdt R, Kraft T. Advanced Single-Cell Mapping Reveals that in hESC Cardiomyocytes Contraction Kinetics and Action Potential Are Independent of Myosin Isoform. Stem Cell Reports. 2020 May 12;14(5):788-802. * authors contributed equally. [Pubmed]


Winners in 2019

Publication Award First Place

  Laura Marrone
ICenter for Regenerative Therapies Dresden (CRTD)
Marrone L, Drexler HCA, Wang J, Tripathi P, Distler T, Heisterkamp P, Anderson EN, Kour S, Moraiti A, Maharana S, Bhatnagar R, Belgard TG, Tripathy V, Kalmbach N, Hosseinzadeh Z, Crippa V, Abo-Rady M, Wegner F, Poletti A, Troost D, Aronica E, Busskamp V, Weis J, Pandey UB, Hyman AA, Alberti S, Goswami A, Sterneckert J. FUS pathology in ALS is linked to alterations in multiple ALS-associated proteins and rescued by drugs stimulating autophagy. Acta Neuropathol. 2019 Jul;138(1):67-84. doi: 10.1007/s00401-019-01998-x.[Pubmed]

Publication Award Second Place

  Erik Brauer
Julius Wolff Insitute at the Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Brauer E, Lippens E, Klein O, Nebrich G, Schreivogel S, Korus G, Duda GN, Petersen A. Collagen fibrils mechanically contribute to tissue contraction in an in vitro wound healing scenario. Advanced Science. 2018 2018 Oct 26;13(10):e0206041. [Pubmed]

Publication Award Third Place

    Rajiv Khajuria
Berlin-Brandenburg School for Regenerative Therapies at the Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Khajuria RK, Munschauer M, Ulirsch JC, Fiorini C, Ludwig LS, McFarland SK, Abdulhay NJ, Specht H, Keshishian H, Mani DR, Jovanovic M, Ellis SR, Fulco CP, Engreitz JM, Schütz S, Lian J, Gripp KW, Weinberg OK, Pinkus GS, Gehrke L, Regev A, Lander ES, Gazda HT, Lee WY, Panse VG, Carr SA, Sankaran VG. Ribosome levels selectively regulate translation and lineage commitment in human hematopoiesis. Cell 2018; 173(1):90-103 [Pubmed]

Winners in 2018

Publication Award First Place

  Dimitrios L. Wagner
Institute of Medical Immunology at the Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Dimitrios L. Wagner, Leila Amini, Desiree J. Wendering, Lisa-Marie Burkhardt, Levent Akyüz, Petra Reinke, Hans-Dieter Volk, Michael Schmueck-Henneresse. High prevalence of Streptococcus pyogens Cas9-reactive T cells within the adult human population. Nature Medicine 2019;25(2):242-248 doi: 10.1038/s41591-018-0204-6.[Pubmed]

Publication Award Second Place

  Regina Puts & Paul Rikeit
Berlin-Brandenburg Center for Regenerative Therapies at the Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin & Institute of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the Freie Universität Berlin
Regina Puts*, Paul Rikeit*, Karen Ruschke, Petra Knaus, Sophie Schreivoge, Kay Raum. Functional regulation of YAP mechanosensitive transcriptional coactivator by Focused Low-Intensity Pulsed Ultrasound (FLIPUS) enhances proliferation of murine mesenchymal precursors. PLoS One. 2018 2018 Oct 26;13(10):e0206041. [Pubmed]

Publication Award Third Place

  Ann-Katrin Schubert
Berlin-Brandenburg Center for Regenerative Therapies at the Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, CO.DON AG
Quality Assessment of Surgical Disc Samples Discriminates Human Annulus Fibrosus and Nucleus Pulposus on Tissue and Molecular Level. Int J Mol Sci. 2018 Jun 13;19(6). [Pubmed]

Winners in 2017

Publication Award First Place

  Thomas Ambrosi
German Institute of Human Nutrition Potsdam - Rehbrücke
Ambrosi TH, Scialdone A, Graja A, Gohlke S, Jank AM, Bocian C, Woelk L, Fan H, Logan DW, Schürmann A, Saraiva LR, Schulz TJ. Adipocyte accumulation in the bone marrow during obesity and aging impairs stem cell-based hematopoietic and bone regeneration. Cell Stem Cell. 2017 Jun 1;20(6):771-784.e6. [Pubmed]

Publication Award Second Place

  Naima Souidi
Institute of Medical Immunology at the Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Souidi N, Stolk M, Rudeck J, Strunk D, Schallmoser K, Volk HD, Seifert M. Stromal cells act as guardians for endothelial progenitors by reducing their Immunogenicity after co-transplantation. Stem Cells. 2017 May;35(5):1233-1245. [Pubmed]

Winners in 2016

Publication Award First Place

  Taimoor Hassan Qazi
Julius Wolff Institute at the Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Pumberger M, Qazi TH, Ehrentraut MC, Textor M, Kueper J, Stoltenburg-Didinger G, Winkler T, von Roth P, Reinke S, Borselli C, Perka C, Mooney DJ, Duda GN, Geißler S. Synthetic niche to modulate regenerative potential of MSCs and enhance skeletal muscle regeneration. Biomaterials. 2016 Aug;99:95-108. [Pubmed]

Publication Award Second Place

  Henning Kempf
REBIRTH-Cluster of Excellence, Hannover Medical School
Kempf H, Olmer R, Haase1 A, Franke A, Bolesani E, Schwanke K, Coffee M, Göhring G, Dräger G, Pötz O, Joos T, Martinez-Hackert E, Haverich A, Falk F.R. Buettner, Martin U, Zweigerdt R. Bulk cell density and Wnt/TGFbeta signaling regulate mesendodermal patterning of human pluripotent stem cells. Nature communications. 2016 Dec 9;7:13602. [Pubmed]

Winners in 2015

 

Publication Award First Place

  Anette Birkhold
Julius Wolff Institute at the Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Birkhold A, Razi H, Duda GN, Weinkamer R, Checa S, Willie BM. The influence of age on adaptive bone formation and bone resorption. Biomaterials 2014 Nov;35(34):9290-301. [Pubmed]

Publication Award Second Place

  Julia Schumann
Institute of Medical Immunology of the Charité
Schumann J, Stanko K, Woertge S, Appelt C, Schumann M, Kühl AA, Panov I, Schliesser U, Vogel S, Ahrlich S, Vaeth M, Berberich-Siebelt F, Waismann A, Sawitzki B. The Mitochondrial Protein TCAIM Regulates Activation of T Cells and Thereby Promotes Tolerance Induction of Allogeneic Transplants. American Journal of Transplantation. 2014 Dec;14(12):2723-35. [Pubmed]

Winners in 2014

Publication Award First Place

    Julia Jung
Reference and Translation Center for Cardiac Stem Cell Therapy (RTC), Universität Rostock
Jung JJ, Husse B, Rimmbach C, Krebs S, Stieber J, Steinhoff G, Dendorfer A, Franz WM, David R. Programming and isolation of highly pure physiologically and pharmacologically functional sinusnodal bodies from pluripotent stem cells. Stem Cell Reports. 2014 Apr 17;2(5):592-605. [Pubmed]

Publication Award Second Place

  Frank Schulze
Julius Wolff Institute at the Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Schulze F, Dienelt A, Geissler S, Zaslansky P, Schoon J, Henzeler K, Guttmann P, Gramoun A, Crowe L, Maurizi L, Vallée JP, Hofmann H, Duda GN, Ode A.. Amino-polyvinyl Alcohol Coated Superparamagnetic Iron Oxide Nanoparticles are Suitable for Monitoring of Human Mesenchymal Stromal Cells In Vivo. 2014 Jul 2;2014 Nov 12;10(21):4340-51. [Pubmed]

Winners in 2013

Publication Award First Place

  Nikos Kyritsis
DFG-Research Center and Cluster of Excellence for Regenerative Therapies Dresden
Kyritsis N, Kizil C, Zocher S, Kroehne V, Kaslin J, Freudenreich D, Iltzsche A, Brand M. Acute inflammation initiates the regenerative response in the adult zebrafish brain. Science. 2012 Dec 7;338(6112):1353-6. [Pubmed]

Publication Award Second Place

  Dirk Steinhilber
Institute for Chemistry and Biochemistry of the Freie Universität Berlin
Steinhilber D, Rossow T, Wedepohl S, Paulus F, Seiffert S, Haag R. A Microgel Construction Kit for Bioorthogonal Encapsulation and pH-Controlled Release of Living Cells. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl. 2013 Dec 16;52(51):13538-43. [Pubmed]

Winners in 2012

In 2012 there were two first places 

Publication Award First Place

  Jessica Kopf
Institute for Chemistry and Biochemistry of the Freie Universität Berlin
Kopf J, Petersen A, Duda GN and Knaus P. BMP2 and mechanical loading cooperatively regulate immediate early signalling events in the BMP pathway. BMC Biol. 2012 Apr 30;10:37. [Pubmed]

Publication Award First Place

  Carolin Schwarz 
Julius Wolff Institute of the Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Schwarz C, Wulsten D, Ellinghaus A, Lienau J, Willie BM, Duda GN. Mechanical Load Modulates the Stimulatory Effect of BMP2 in a Rat Nonunion Model. Tissue Eng Part A. 2013 Jan;19(1-2):247-54. [Pubmed]

Winners in 2011

Publication Award First Place

  Benedeta Artegiani
DFG-Research Center and Cluster of Excellence for Regenerative Therapies Dresden
Artegiani B, Lindemann D, Calegari1 F. Overexpression of cdk4 and cyclinD1 triggers greater expansion of neural stem cells in the adult mouse brain. J Exp Med. 2011 May 9;208(5):937-48. [Pubmed]

Publication Award Second Place

  Madlen Löbel
Institute of Medical Immunology of the Charité
Rother M, Krohn S, Kania G, Vanhoutte D, Eisenreich A, Wang X, Westermann D, Savvatis K, Dannemann N, Skurk C, Hilfiker-Kleiner D, Cathomen T, Fechner H, Rauch U, Schultheiss H-P, Heymans S, Eriksson U, Scheibenbogen C, Poller W. Matricellular Signaling Molecule CCN1 Attenuates Experimental Autoimmune Myocarditis by Acting as a Novel Immune Cell Migration Modulator. Circulation. 2010 Dec 21;122(25):2688-98.  [Pubmed]

Winners in 2010

Publication Award First Place

  Francesco Boato
Institute of Cell Biology and Neurobiology of the Charité
Boato F, Hendrix S, Huelsenbeck SC, Hofmann F, Grosse G, Djalali S, Klimaschewski L, Auer M, Just I, Ahnert-Hilger G, Höltje M. C3 peptide enhances recovery from spinal cord injury by improved regenerative growth of descending fiber tracts. J Cell Sci. 2010 May 15;123(Pt 10):1652-62. [Pubmed]

Publication Award Second Place

  Karin Müller
Institute of Medical Immunology of the Charité
Müller K, Schachtner T, Sattler A , Meier S, Friedrich P, Trydzenskaya H, Hinrichs C, Trappe R, Thiel A, Reinke P, Babel N. BK-VP3 as a New Target of Cellular Immunity in BK Virus Infection. Transplantation. 2011 Jan 15;91(1):100-7. [Pubmed]

Winners in 2009

Publication Award

 

Wassim Altarche Xifró
Center for Cardiovascular Research of the Charité
Altarche-Xifró W, Curato C, Kaschina E, Grzesiak A, Slavic S, Dong J, Kappert K, Steckelings M, Imboden H, Unger T, Li J. Cardiac c-kit1AT21 Cell Population is Increased in Response to Ischemic Injury and Supports Cardiomyocyte Performance. Stem Cells. 2009 Oct;27(10):2488-97. [Pubmed]

Poster Award

  Yifei Liu
Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces
The evolution and distribution of apatite mineral crystals during bine fracture healing in sheep
36th European Symposium on Calcified Tissues in Vienna, 2009

Winners in 2008

Publication Award

  Ulf Schulze-Tophoff
Cecilie Vogt Clinic for Neurology of the Charité
Prozorovski T, Schulze-Topphoff U, Glumm R, Baumgart J, Schröter F, Ninnemann O, Siegert E, Bendix I, Brüstle O, Nitsch R, Zipp F, Aktas O. Sirt-1 contributes critically to the redox-dependent fate of neural progenitors. Nat Cell Biol. 2008 Apr;10(4):385-94. [Pubmed]

Poster Award

  Annika Fischer and Sandra Zwinger
Institute of Medical Immunology of the Charité
Role of regulatory T cells in adoptive CVV-specific T cell therapy
Transplantational Immunology in New Haven, Connecticut 2008