Verena Mailänder

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Verena Mailänder

PhD Student

Helmholtz Centre for
Environmental Research – UFZ
Department of Environmental Immunology
Permoserstr. 15
04318 Leipzig, Germany

Phone: +49 341 6025-3107
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Verena Mailänder
Photo: Sebastian Wiedling/UFZ

Research Interests

  • Investigating the influence of chemical mixtures on immune cells, their interaction with the placenta, and the maternal-fetal chemical exposure's effects on the unborn child's immune system and health, with a focus on reducing animal models.
  • Advancing co-culturing 3D models of the human placenta, including barrier models, spheroids, and organoids.

Curriculum vitae / Scientific career

since 2024

PhD student, Department of Environmental Immunology, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ, Leipzig, Germany

2020 – 2023

Master of Immunology, Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg, Germany

2022

Visiting International Research Student, University of British Columbia, Canada

2015 – 2019

Pharmacy studies, Philipps University Marburg, Germany
with an exchange year at King‘s College London, UK


Awards

2023

Master in Immunology 'with distinction'

2017/18

Erasmus Program Scholarship