Saskia Biskup

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Saskia Biskup (* 26 December 1971 as Saskia Huber in Frankfurt am Main ) is a German geneticist and entrepreneur . It deals with the research and diagnosis of genetic diseases . Her focus is on the application of new methods in everyday clinical practice.

education

After graduating from high school (1991 in Frankfurt), Biskup studied human medicine at the Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg until 1997 . There she was an intern until her license to practice medicine in 1999, and in 1998 she was awarded a Dr. med. PhD. Since her interest lay in research, she applied for the MD / PhD program at the University of Würzburg in 1999, into which she was accepted. After completing her doctorate at the Department of Genetics and Neurobiology in the Faculty of Biology, she received the title of Dr. rer. nat. in 2003.

In 2001 she acquired an additional qualification in bioinformatics at the Academy for Further Education in Heidelberg .

Saskia Biskup began her training as a specialist in human genetics in 2002 at the Institute for Human Genetics at the Technical University of Munich and successfully completed it in Tübingen at the end of 2009.

Professional career

From 2002 to 2005 Biskup was an assistant doctor at the Institute for Human Genetics at the Technical University of Munich. She continued her research in cooperation with the Helmholtz Center , the German research center for health and the environment in Munich. After this position, she spent the period from 2005 to 2008 as part of a research stay at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in Baltimore, USA. The doctor and scientist then moved to the Institute for Human Genetics at the University of Tübingen , where she completed her specialist training from 2008 to 2010.

In 2009, the native of Frankfurt and her husband Dirk Biskup founded CeGaT GmbH, the “Center for Genomics and Transcriptomics” in Tübingen. CeGaT, in which Saskia Biskup acts as managing partner, works closely with the practice for human genetics she founded in Tübingen in 2010.

Since 2010, Biskup has also been working group leader at the Hertie Institute for Clinical Brain Research at the University of Tübingen, where she has a teaching position.

From April 2012 to the end of 2014 Saskia Biskup was medical director for the Institute for Clinical Genetics at the Stuttgart Clinic .

research

Biskup's research projects deal with the genetic basis of Parkinson's disease . As an assistant doctor at the Technical University of Munich (Helmholtz Center Munich - German Research Center for Health and Environment), Saskia Biskup first discovered changes in the previously unknown gene LRRK2 as part of an international consortium , which today is most commonly associated with Parkinson's syndrome worldwide becomes. The results were published at the end of 2004 in the article "Mutations in LRRK2 Cause Autosomal-Dominant Parkinsonism with Pleomorphic Pathology" in the journal Neuron. According to Laborjournal (February 2010), this article is one of the most frequently cited publications in the field of human genetics from 2003 to 2006. She is co-author of numerous publications.

Awards

  • 2005 - Junior Award of the International Conference of Parkinson's Disease in Berlin.
  • 2006 - Peter Gruber International Award from the Society for Neuroscience in Atlanta, USA, for her research work and international collaborations.
  • 2010 - Keystone Scholarship Award
  • 2011 - German founder award , category "Start-up"
  • 2011 - Awarded as one of the “100 women of tomorrow”. The initiative, under the patronage of Federal President Christian Wulff , honored women who make their contribution to the future of Germany in a wide variety of areas.
  • 2014 - EU Innovation Prize for Women from the European Commission .

Sporting successes

Saskia Biskup has played tennis actively and successfully since early childhood , most recently in the tennis department of SV Böblingen .

  • In 2014 she won the German team championship in Augsburg with the women's 30 team.
  • In 2015 the team became German runner-up in Essen.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ CeGaT - rapid gene diagnosis. In: www.mbg.de. Retrieved April 6, 2016 .
  2. ↑ Home: Hertie Institute for Clinical Brain Research. In: www.hih-tuebingen.de. Retrieved April 6, 2016 .
  3. ↑ Biskup becomes Medical Director of the Institute for Clinical Genetics at the Olgahospital. In: www.gesundheitsindustrie-bw.de. Retrieved April 6, 2016 .
  4. ^ Mutations in LRRK2 Cause Autosomal-Dominant Parkinsonism with Pleomorphic Pathology. Retrieved November 18, 2004 .
  5. ↑ pubmeddev: biskup s - PubMed - NCBI. In: www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov. Retrieved April 6, 2016 .
  6. ^ The Peter and Patricia Gruber International Research Award in Neuroscience | The Gruber Foundation. In: gruber.yale.edu. Retrieved April 6, 2016 .
  7. ↑ Cegat - German Founder's Prize. In: www.deutscher-gruenderpreis.de. Retrieved April 6, 2016 .
  8. ↑ 100 women of tomorrow - already out of print | Land of Ideas | Germany. In: www.land-der-ideen.de. Retrieved April 6, 2016 .
  9. ↑ Human geneticist from Tübingen wins EU innovation prize for women. In: www.bild.de. Retrieved April 6, 2016 .
  10. ↑ European Commission - PRESS RELEASES - Press release - Innovation Prize for Women 2014: Commission honors winners from Germany, the Netherlands and Spain. In: europa.eu. Retrieved April 6, 2016 .
  11. ↑ Women 30 In the second attempt to the German team championship title | TABB - SV Böblingen EV - Tennis department. In: www.tabb.de. Retrieved April 6, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Biskup, Saskia
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German human geneticist and entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH December 26, 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt