Research Interests
Bioengineering human-based models, gene therapies, inflammation and genetic diseases
Research Focus Teams
Rare Diseases, Blood Diseases, Lung Disease
Departments
School of Biomedical Engineering
Contact
Email: Sarah.hedtrich@ubc.ca
Lab Website
Prof. Hedtrich obtained her PhD in Pharmaceutical Sciences from the Freie Universität Berlin in 2009. During her postdoc, she moved to the Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich and Tufts University in Boston, USA. She held one of the prestigious Johanna-Quandt-Professorships at the Berlin Institute of Health @ Charité in Berlin and was recently appointed as a Tier I Canada Research Chair in Human Disease Models at the School of Biomedical Engineering at the University of British Columbia.
The Hedtrich lab strives to understand and tackle inflammatory diseases of human epithelia with a focus on the skin, lungs and intestine.
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