Team member CV

Charlotte Braatz

Alumnus

Eicke Latz Lab

Bio Summary

Charlotte Braatz is a 5th year medical student at the University of Bonn, Germany. She is especially interested in the neuroinflammatory pathways triggered in Alzheimer’s disease and possibilities of inhibition. She joined the lab of Prof. Heneka in October 2020 for her MD thesis project. It focuses on the inhibition of the NLRP3 inflammasome as a key driver of the pathogenesis and progression of Alzheimer’s disease. She will investigate the effects of NLRP3 directed expression modulating agents in an in vitro model with THP-1 cells and primary murine microglia.

Hobbies

cycling, playing drums, aviation

Positions

2020-present

Doctor of Medicine Candidate, German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE), Germany

Education

2017-present

Medicine studies, University of Bonn, Germany

2015-2017

Bachelor of Arts,Communication science and sociology, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany

Prizes/Awards

2021-2022

BONFOR SciMed grant of the medical faculty of the University of Bonn

2015-2017

Scholarship of the Max Weber Program Bavaria

2014

Graduation award, German physical society

Laboratory addresses

Instituteof Innate Immunity

University of Bonn, Venusberg Campus 1, 53127 Bonn, Germany

www.iiibonn.de

GermanCenter of Neurodegenerative Diseases

DZNE, Venusberg Campus 1, 51237 Bonn, Germany

Charlotte.Braatz@dzne.de

www.dzne.de