Guest lecture by Meike Heurich | Molecular interactions of the complement and coagulation systems; an emerging role in the development of psychosis and schizophrenia
Medical priority Immunity & inflammation EventPlesmanlaan 125
1066 CX Amsterdam
The Netherlands
On 7 May 2024 (1:00 PM) Meike Heurich PhD (School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Cardiff University, Wales, UK) will give a guest lecture at Sanquin, Amsterdam.
Title: Molecular interactions of the complement and coagulation systems; an emerging role in the development of psychosis and schizophrenia
Host: Richard Pouw
Dr Heurich is a Senior Lecturer at the School of Pharmacy, Cardiff University, United Kingdom. She began working in complement research in 2008, focussing on the structure/function analysis of complement proteins and their impact on complement activity and regulation in the Morgan/Harris lab (School of Medicine, Cardiff University), which resulted in the establishment of The Complotype.
In 2012, she was awarded a career development research fellowship funded by the Welsh Government to conduct research into the molecular cross-interactions of complement with the coagulation system.
She was appointed Lecturer in 2017, and promoted to Senior Lecturer in 2022, at the Division of Drug Discovery, Pharmaceutical Sciences and Experimental Therapeutics, School of Pharmacy, Cardiff University, UK. In her lab, her group is working on identifying complement and coagulation biomarkers in disease, and as targets for drug discovery. Her research group discovered a novel complement-coagulation interaction and studies the effects of complement on coagulation and haemostasis, utilizing biophysics, protein biochemistry and molecular biology methods. The clinical focus of the lab has been on identifying blood biomarkers in individuals who are at risk to develop a psychotic disorder, as well as those with established first-episode psychosis and schizophrenia.
