Incoming Class of 2021

Full name: Khaled Abdulrahim Talal Mahmoud
Country: Jordan
Project: Influence of peroxisomes in macrophages on inflammatory and pro-fibrotic processes in the lung
PI/co-PI: Eveline Baumgart-Vogt
E-mail: khaled.mahmoud@anatomie.med.uni-giessen.de
Sponsorship: JLU

Full name: Afshin Noori
Country: Iran
Project: The role of Fgf10-positive cells in repair/regeneration after injury using different mouse models
PI/co-PI: Saverio Bellusci
E-mail: afshin_noori92@yahoo.com
Sponsorship: JLU

Full name: Esmeralda Vásquez Pacheco
Country: Mexico
Project: Role of Fgf10/Fgfr2b signaling in the maintenance of adult lung homeostasis - Importance of reciprocal Lipofibroblast/AT2 stem cell interactions (LIF/AT2).
PI/co-PI: Saverio Bellusci
E-mail: esmeralda.vasquez-pacheco@med.uni-giessen.de
Sponsorship: CONACYT

Full name: Ali Khadim
Country: Pakistan
Project: Mesenchymal cells in lung development and repair
PI/co-PI: Elie El Agha
E-mail: ali.khadim@innere.med.uni-giessen.de
Sponsorship: DFG

Full name: George Kiliaris
Country: Cyprus
Project: Therapeutic effect of metformin in the lung
PI/co-PI: Elie El Agha
E-mail: georgios.kiliaris@innere.med.uni-giessen.de
Sponsorship: ILH

Full name: Mohammad Estiri
Country: Iran
Project: Impact of diffusible signals at human cell-microbe interfaces: Influence of EVs in organoids and in in-vivo models
PI/co-PI: Susanne Herold/Ulrich Matt
E-mail: mohammad.estiri@innere.med.uni-giessen.de
Sponsorship: LOEWE

Full name: Samuel Olapoju
Country: Nigeria
Project: Gender differences in pulmonary arterial hypertension: New therapeutic options.
PI/co-PI: Soni Savai Pullamsetti
E-mail: samuel.olapoju@mpi-bn.mpg.de
Sponsorship: Max Plank Institute for heart and Lung research

Full Name: Zahraa Msheik
Country: Lebanon
Project: Hypoxia-induced long non-coding RNAs: Impact on chronic lung diseases.
PI/co-PI: Soni Savai Pullamsetti
E-mail: zahraa.msheik@mpi-bn.mpg.de
Sponsorship: Max Plank Institute for heart and Lung research

Full Name: Daniel Zedler
Country: Germany
Project: Clinical relevance of right atrial functional response to treatment in pulmonary arterial hypertension
PI/co-PI: Manuel Richter/Khodr Tello
Email: daniel.zedler@med.uni-giessen.de
Sponsorship: JLU CAREER

Full name: Eleni Bouloukou
Country: Greece
Project: Conversion of basal cells to the neuroendocrine trajectory
PI/co-PI: Christos Samakovlis
E-mail: eleni.bouloukou@innere.med.uni-giessen.de
Sponsorship: UGMLC

Full name: Ayoson Joshua
Country: Nigeria
Project: The role of CD8 T cells subpopulation in lung cancer
PI/co-PI: Rajkumar Savai
Email: joshua.ayoson@med.uni-giessen.de
Sponsorship: ILH

Full name: Spyridoula Barmpoutsi
Country: Greece
Project: Role of the macrophage immune checkpoints in lung cancer
PI/co-PI: Rajkumar Savai
E-mail: spyridoula.barboutsi@mpi-bn.mpg.de
Sponsorship: ILH

Full name: Philipp Friedrich Arndt
Country: Germany
Project: Metabolic reprogramming of tumour associated macrophages and its impact on lung cancer progression
PI: Rajkumar Savai
E-mail: philipp.arndt@innere.med.uni-giessen.de
Sponsorship: JLU CAREER

Full name: Sailun Wang
Country: China
Project: Metabolic signaling pathway in the adaptive/ maladaptive right ventricle remodeling
PI/co-PI: Ralph Schermuly/Baktybek Kojonazarov
E-mail: sailun.wang@innere.med.uni-giessen.de
Sponsorship: CRC1213, Project CP02

Full name: Vinita Sharma
Country: India
Project: Cell-specific investigation of inducible nitric oxide synthase in animal model of cigarette-smoke induced pulmonary hypertension
PI/co-PI: Norbert Weissmann
E-mail: vinita.sharma@innere.med.uni-giessen.de
Sponsorship: DFG

Full name: Vidya Srokshna Balasubramanian Lakshmi
Country: India
Project: Mitochondrial T-cell reprogramming in virus-induced COPD exacerbation/ emphysema progression
PI/co-PI: Norbert Weissmann/Natascha Sommer
E-mail: vidya.lakshmi@innere.med.uni-giessen.de
Sponsorship: ECCPS

Full name: Edma Loku
Country: Albania
Project: Unravelling FGF10 signaling cascades in the mouse lung during development of emphysema and pulmonary hypertension
PI/co-PI: Norbert Weissmann / Stefan Hadžic
E-mail: stu213326@mail.uni-kiel.de
Sponsorship: JLU

Full name: Mohammad Amin Mahjoub
Country: Iran
Project: Investigating the role of notch signaling pathway in experimental BPD
PI/co-PI: Miguel A. Alejandre Alcázar
E-mail: mohammad.mahjoub@innere.med.uni-giessen.de
Sponsorship: ILH