About Katja

Katja Schenke-Layland received a master of science (M.Sc.) in biology, psychology and sociology in 2001; and her doctorate degree (Dr. rer. nat.) in biology in 2004 from the Friedrich Schiller University FSU Jena, Germany. She worked as a researcher at the Departments of Anatomy (2000-2001) and Cardiothoracic Surgery (2001-2004) at the FSU Jena, Germany before she went to Los Angeles, California, USA where she was a postdoctoral research fellow at the Saban Research Institute at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles CHLA (2004-2005) and the David Geffen School of Medicine at University of California Los Angeles UCLA, USA (2005-2008). In 2008 she was appointed as Assistant Research Professor in the Department of Medicine/ Cardiology at UCLA (2008-2009). In January 2010, she became the group leader of the Fraunhofer-Attract Group at the Fraunhofer Institute for Interfacial Engineering and Biotechnology IGB, Dept. of Cell and Tissue Engineering in Stuttgart, Germany and later accepted the position of Deputy Department Head. Katja accepted her call as Professor of Biomaterials at the University Hospital Tübingen UKT in 2011. Just recently, Katja accepted the position of Executive Editor of Advanced Drug Delivery Reviews, which has an impact factor of 13.5.

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Awards

Katja has received several honors and prizes, including the Prize of the Klee Family Foundation awarded by the German Association of Biomedical Engineering DGBMT (2004), and awards from the International Society for Optical Engineering SPIE (2004), The Society of Heart Valve Disease SHVD (2004), the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering NIBIB (2007). In April 2010, she received the prestigious Morphological Sciences Award of the American Association of Anatomists AAA.

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