Heike Kielstein

Heike Kielstein (* 1970 in Hanover ) is a German anatomist . She heads the Institute for Anatomy and Cell Biology of the Medical Faculty of the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg and the advanced training center for clinical anatomy at the University Hospital Halle (Saale) .

Life

Kielstein studied medicine in Hanover and France from 1989 to 1996 . She received her doctorate in 1998 and completed her habilitation in 2005 at the Hannover Medical School (MHH). From 2007 she held a junior professorship for endocrino-immunology at the MHH. The specialist in anatomy was appointed as W2 professor for anatomy at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg in 2011 , and in 2015 she received a W3 professorship.

Act

In her working group, she researches the function of NK cells in obesity . Kielstein was the winner in the “Natural Sciences / Medicine” category in the “Professors of the Year 2017” competition organized by Unicum magazine .

Publications (selection)

• H. Kielstein, M. Suntharalingam, R. Perthel, R. Song, S. Schneider, J. Martens-Lobenhoffer, K. Jäger, SM Bode-Böger, JT Kielstein: Role of the endogenous nitric oxide inhibitor asymmetric dimethylarginine (ADMA) and brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) in depression and behavioral changes: clinical and preclinical data in chronic kidney disease. In: Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation. 30, 2015, pp. 1699–1705, DOI: 10.1093 / ndt / gfv253 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Medical Faculty of the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg: Prof.in Dr. med. Heike Kielstein . Retrieved December 16, 2018.
2. ↑ Unicum: The Professors of the Year 2017 . Retrieved December 16, 2018.