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Laura Sommerfeld obtained a BSc in Molecular Medicine from the University of Göttingen, Germany, where she subsequently took on her Master’s studies in Cardiovascular Sciences. She joined cardiac research projects at University Medical Center Göttingen, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, and King’s College London, receiving training in a variety of techniques to study mechanisms of cardiac diseases in cardiac cells of different origins, including adult and stem cell-derived cardiomyocytes. After obtaining her MSc, she moved to Birmingham, UK, to pursue a PhD (Thesis: “Deciphering inheritable drivers of atrial arrhythmia - from cellular microdomains in models to phenotypes in patients”) within the Translational Research Cluster on Heart Failure and Arrhythmias, supervised by Prof. Larissa Fabritz and Dr. Katja Gehmlich.
Laura Sommerfeld joined the UCCS, Research Group Fabritz , in 2021. She is studying molecular mechanisms of arrhythmias and cardiomyopathies, including desmosomal instability and biomarkers related to atrial fibrillation. Besides biochemical and molecular methods, she is trained in a range of imaging techniques, including super-resolution microscopy, optical mapping, and echocardiography. With a strong ability to integrate diverse methodologies and disciplines, she bridges the gap between large-scale clinical data analysis and high-resolution mechanistic studies at single cell level. She secured funding through the DZHK Excellence Programme with a Postdoc Start-up Grant in 2024, leading a research project executed in collaboration with the Institute of Experimental Pharmacology and Toxicology .
What she enjoys most about the UCCS is the interdisciplinary network and working in teams of both clinicians and basic scientists. Committed to fostering collaboration between basic scientists and clinicians across Germany, she plays an active role as a member of the Task Force Basic Science of the Young DGK and serves as an Ambassador for Basic Science within the German Cardiac Society (DGK).
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