Biography:
Dr. Böttner studied Biochemistry at Leipzig University, Germany and graduated as M.Sc. in 2014. She then joined a Nanotoxicology research group at the Institute Medicinal Physics and Biophysics at Leipzig University studying biological processing of industrial nanoparticles in the respiratory system. She received her PhD degree in 2020 at the Faculty of Life Science, while studying toxicology at Leipzig University. Afterwards she started postdoctoral research focusing on valvular heart diseases supervised by Dr. Böttner and Prof. Thiele at the Heart Center Leipzig at Leipzig University. She has published 17 research articles.



Title : Unique features of GFAP – expressing valve interstitial cells in valvular homeostasis and fibro-calcific aortic valve disease