Dr Slava Ziegler

Slava Ziegler obtained her PhD in 2004 under the guidance of Dr. O. Mueller (department of Structural Biology) at the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology working on tumor genetics and Wnt signaling. Then she joined the group of Dr. R. Engers at the Institute of Pathology at the University of Duesseldorf and studied the mechanisms of tumor invasion and metastasis. Since July 2009 she has been leading a project group in the department Chemical Biology of Prof. Herbert Waldmann with focus on cell-based assays for exlporing bioactivity of small molecules and identification and validation of the targets of bioactive compounds.