Dr. Annekatrin König
Innovationspreis Parkinson Stiftung 2022 in der Kategorie „Grundlagenforschung“
Dr. Annekatrin König, Experimentelle Neurodegeneration, Universitätsmedizin Göttingen
Research experience

Postdoc in the lab of Prof. Dr. Tiago F. Outeiro

• Oligomer-Focused Screening and Individualized Therapeutics to target Neurodegenerative Disorders Sep 2020 – present

• Alpha-synuclein pathology propagation in Parkinson’s disease

• and quest for novel protective strategies July 2016 – Dec 2019

Postdoc in the lab of PD Dr. Halyna Shcherbata May 2014 – Dec 2014

• Role of Wg signaling in germline stem cell progeny differentiation

PhD thesis: PD Dr. Halyna Shcherbata

• Ecdysone signaling and miRNA let-7 cooperate in regulating the differentiation of the germline stem cell progeny

Education

Ph.D. Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry Program: Genes and Development within the Göttingen Graduate School for Neurosciences, Biophysics and Molecular Biosciences, (Grade: summa cum laude) Diploma of Biology, Friedrich-Schiller University Jena, Germany Sept 2009

• focus: genetics, biochemistry, microbiology; (Grade A)