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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 and received training in a variety of techniques to study mechanisms of cardiac diseases in cardiac cells of different origin, including adult and stem cell-derived cardiomyocytes. After obtaining her MSc, she moved to Birmingham, UK, in 2018 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 in 2021. In the group of Prof. Larissa Fabritz 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.
What she enjoys most about the UCCS is the interdisciplinary network and working in teams of both clinicians and basic scientists.
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