PD Dr. Christina Weisheit

PD Dr. Christina Katharina Weisheit works as a consultant Anesthesiology in the Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine (head of department: Prof. Dr. Mark Coburn) at the University Hospital Bonn. Having studied human medicine at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, PD Dr. Weisheit completed her training as a specialist in anesthesiology at the University Hospital in Bonn (former head of department: Prof. Dr. Andreas Hoeft).
After completing her BONFOR-funded doctorate on the topic "The role of TNF-α in the function and migration of neutrophils in bacterial urinary tract infections in the murine model" in the working group of Prof. Dr. Christian Kurts, she remained affiliated with the Institute for Experimental Immunology and Molecular Medicine through a scholarship from the Else-Kröner Research College in Bonn and a BONFOR junior research group.
Since 2019, PD Dr. Weisheit is Co-PI in a project of the SFB TRR259 on the topic "Analysis of the immune response and the influence of the microbiome in calcifying aortic valve stenosis", which is now successfully entering the second funding period. In 2022 she habilitated on the role of the innate immune response in bacterial and sterile inflammation.
The research focus of her group is to investigate the underlying immunological mechanisms that contribute to the development and progression of left ventricular hypertrophy and aortic valve stenosis.
With the help of multiparameter FACS analysis, immunofluorescence microscopy and molecular biological methods, the different phases of disease development and the immune response are analyzed.
Through the newly gained knowledge and the interdisciplinary work in the research groups,
PD Dr. Weisheit aims at significantly contributing to defining new biomarkers and developing immunomodulatory therapy approaches.
PD Dr. Weisheit belongs to the first group of ACCENT scholarship holders in Bon