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Lukas Cyganek

University Medical Center Göttingen, DE
Biography

Lukas Cyganek is head of the Stem Cell Unit at the University Medical Center Göttingen (http://stemcellunit.de). The SCU offers support within the scope of generation, cultivation and characterization of patient-specific induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs), its genome editing as well as its in vitro differentiation into patient-specific cardiomyocytes. The SCU further offers their expertise in the analysis of iPSC-derived cardiomyocytes and engineered heart muscles on molecular and functional level for detailed phenotyping. Apart from the laboratory services, the SCU acts as biobank for patient-specific iPSCs and iPSC derivatives (http://dzhk.de/ressourcen/stammzellregister/).

During his PhD at the European Neuroscience Institute Göttingen, Lukas Cyganek focused on the neurogenesis of the somatosensory system. In 2013, he joined the stem cell lab of Prof. Kaomei Guan in the cardiology at the University Medical Center Göttingen as a postdoctoral researcher, before he became head of the SCU in 2015. His recent research focusses on the generation of patient-specific as well as engineered iPSCs of and their applications in disease modelling of cardiovascular diseases, drug screening and tissue engineering.

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