Janina Lösch is a master student from University of Bonn doing an Erasmus+ internship at the DCRT. Her project focuses on allele selective ASOs targeting a heterozygous variant in ACTL6B that causes an intellectual development disorder. The idea is to inactivate the mutated allele while leaving the wild type allele intact, as heterozygous carriers of recessive mutations in ACTL6B are healthy.
Janina obtained her bachelor’s degree in Molecular Biomedicine after which she continued with a master’s program in Immunobiology, both at the University of Bonn. For her master thesis she investigated the effect of the menstrual cycle on blood immune cells.

Welcome to the DCRT, Janina!

posted on March 27, 2024