Biologist Karin Loser appointed

Prof. Dr. Karin Loser has been appointed Professor of Immunology at the Department of Human Medicine.

She was previously a professor at the University of Münster and headed the Centre for Experimental Dermatology and Immunobiology of the Skin at the University Clinic for Dermatology. Loser studied biology at the University of Münster, where she also earned her PhD. She worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology, and then from 2001 at the Clinic for Dermatology. In 2005 and 2006 she was a visiting fellow at the Institute of Molecular Biotechnology (IMBA) at the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna. In 2012, she moved back to Münster, where she took over the management of the Centre for Experimental Dermatology and Immunobiology of the Skin.

Loser's research focuses on basic cell and molecular biological processes in the skin and their influence on the development and progression of inflammatory diseases. She also studies the impact of environmental factors on diseases of the nervous system.